Fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God

[B-A-C]

I typically do not use the King James, but I specifically used it for the verses below.

Acts 15:20; But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25; As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

I have heard some people say that fornication was only a sin for the Jews, but the verse above says this applies to the Gentiles as well.

Rom 1:29; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1Cor 6:13; Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1Cor 6:18; Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Cor 7:2; Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1Cor 10:8; Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
2Cor 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Gal 5:19; Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Eph 5:3; But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Col 3:5; Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1Thes 4:3; For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Rev 2:14; But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Rev 2:20; Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:21; And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

1Cor 6:9; Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Cor 6:10; Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Notice both of these passage say fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. It doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus or not, if you're fornicating... you don't inherit the kingdom of God.
The good news is.. if you repent and quit doing it. You can be forgiven. But you have to stop. Yes, you HAVE to. It's not optional.

Heb 13:4; Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

What exactly is fornication? I have been accused of using my own definition that I made up, or "cherry picking" the definition from a specific source.
So instead of doing either of those things, I simply typed "definition of fornication" into google. Then I use the first 10 definitions that showed up.


for·ni·ca·tion
/ˌfôrnəˈkāSHən/
Learn to pronounce

noun
FORMAL•HUMOROUS

1. sexual intercourse between people not married to each other.
   "laws forbidding adultery and fornication"

fornication​

noun​

for·ni·ca·tion ˌfȯr-nə-ˈkā-shən

: consensual (see CONSENSUAL sense 2) sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.

It doesn't always happen that all the definitions of a word are the same, but in this case, I could not find any definition that was different.
The bottom line here is.. if you're having sex with someone you're not married to... you're fornicating.
If one or both of you is married to someone else... then it's adultery. That's a slightly different sin, I will cover later.

 

[Dave M]

I have had heated debates about what it means to inherit the kingdom of God, there are some people who believe that means you won't get rewards, but you are still saved and go to heaven. I could not believe they even thought that. I truly believe most of society has no idea that sex outside of marriage is a sin I never knew most of my life until I started reading the bible on my own.

Another thing I have run across is people who think they can be forgiven without stopping the sin.

 

[B-A-C]

Another thing I have run across is people who think they can be forgiven without stopping the sin.

Heb 10:26; For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Heb 10:27; but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.
Heb 10:28; Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Heb 10:29; How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Heb 10:30; For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE."
Heb 10:31; It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Luke 13:3; "I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

 

[Jesus_is_LORD]

I have had heated debates about what it means to inherit the kingdom of God, there are some people who believe that means you won't get rewards, but you are still saved and go to heaven. I could not believe they even thought that. I truly believe most of society has no idea that sex outside of marriage is a sin I never knew most of my life until I started reading the bible on my own.

Another thing I have run across is people who think they can be forgiven without stopping the sin.

I agree totally.

Yeahh, they can indeed be forgiven, but their lack of desire to stop the sin, as we already know,
points to a lack of repentance on their part.

They don't connect repentance with forgiveness. Many think that forgiveness is just something you request and you receive.
But forgiveness is the response due to your actions of repentance. Forgiveness without repentance makes little sense to me.

It's like standing in front of the judge and asking the judge to forgive you for punching smoking in a nonsmoking
area, while you continue to blow smoke in his face asking to be forgiven. Doesn't make sense.

 

[Dave M]

Many think that forgiveness is just something you request and you receive.

Yeap I was raised in a catholic church and always thought confession was repentance and that I could keep sinning and God had to forgive me as long as I asked, Talk about being lost and having no clue.

 

[KingJ]

I typically do not use the King James, but I specifically used it for the verses below.

Acts 15:20; But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:29; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25; As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

I have heard some people say that fornication was only a sin for the Jews, but the verse above says this applies to the Gentiles as well.

Rom 1:29; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1Cor 6:13; Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1Cor 6:18; Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Cor 7:2; Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1Cor 10:8; Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
2Cor 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Gal 5:19; Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Eph 5:3; But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Col 3:5; Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1Thes 4:3; For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Rev 2:14; But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Rev 2:20; Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:21; And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

1Cor 6:9; Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Cor 6:10; Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Notice both of these passage say fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God. It doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus or not, if you're fornicating... you don't inherit the kingdom of God.
The good news is.. if you repent and quit doing it. You can be forgiven. But you have to stop. Yes, you HAVE to. It's not optional.

Heb 13:4; Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

What exactly is fornication? I have been accused of using my own definition that I made up, or "cherry picking" the definition from a specific source.
So instead of doing either of those things, I simply typed "definition of fornication" into google. Then I use the first 10 definitions that showed up.


for·ni·ca·tion
/ˌfôrnəˈkāSHən/
Learn to pronounce

noun
FORMAL•HUMOROUS

1. sexual intercourse between people not married to each other.
   "laws forbidding adultery and fornication"

fornication​

noun​

for·ni·ca·tion ˌfȯr-nə-ˈkā-shən

: consensual (see CONSENSUAL sense 2) sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.

It doesn't always happen that all the definitions of a word are the same, but in this case, I could not find any definition that was different.
The bottom line here is.. if you're having sex with someone you're not married to... you're fornicating.
If one or both of you is married to someone else... then it's adultery. That's a slightly different sin, I will cover later.

Good OP and very interesting scriptures. Quite shocking that there are so many mentioning fornication.

As with all sin, some context is needed I feel...

We all sin. Daily. Sin is sin and sin has degrees. An adulterer in the OT was stoned to death, A fornicator received 100 lashes.

We are instructed by Paul in 1 Cor 6:1-9 to judge matters better then the unsaved. To work out our salvation in fear and trembling before God Phil 2:12. To judge ourselves harshly in order to avoid judgement 1 Cor 11:31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.

So, when we judge ourselves, lets say for example, a lie we told. We need to consider who all were hurt by the lie and exactly how much were they in fact hurt. It is possible to tell a lie that hurts absolutely nobody and then to tell a lie that utterly destroys someone.

Applying the same acumen to the sin of fornication. I don't easily see varying degrees of it. It is one of those sins like a murder 10/10. You either guilty of the sin at an 8/10 level or you are not.

 

[KingJ]

You either guilty of the sin at an 8/10 level or you are not.

Especially considering the fact that marriage is quite easy. A second marriage can be done in court with minimal costs.

 

[Br. Bear]

Greetings,

It doesn't always happen that all the definitions of a word are the same, but in this case, I could not find any definition that was different.

to add to what you have presented @B-A-C ,

fornication (n.)​

c. 1300, from Old French fornicacion "fornication, lewdness; prostitution; idolatry" (12c.), from Late Latin fornicationem (nominative fornicatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (from PIE root *gwher- "to heat, warm"). Strictly, "voluntary sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman;" extended in the Bible to adultery. The sense extension in Latin is perhaps because Roman prostitutes commonly solicited from under the arches of certain buildings.

from: fornication | Etymology, origin and meaning of fornication by etymonline


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[Br. Bear]

.... and...

if we look at the Greek,

porneia: fornication
Original Word: πορνεία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: porneia
Phonetic Spelling: (por-ni'-ah)
Definition: fornication
Usage: fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry.

4202 porneía (the root of the English terms "pornography, pornographic"; cf. 4205 /pórnos) which is derived from pernaō, "to sell off") – properly, a selling off (surrendering) of sexual purity; promiscuity of any (every) type.

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and 4205

pornos: a fornicator
Original Word: πόρνος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: pornos
Phonetic Spelling: (por'-nos)
Definition: a fornicator
Usage: a fornicator, man who prostitutes himself.
HELPS Word-studies
4205 pórnos (from pernaō, "to sell off") – properly, a male prostitute. 4205 (pórnos) is "properly, 'a male prostitute' (so Xen., etc.); in the NT, any fornicator" (Abbott-Smith); i.e. anyone engaging in sexual immorality.

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See also Revelation 19:2

In accordance with a form of speech common in the O. T. and among the Jews which represents the close relationship existing between Jehovah and his people under the figure of a marriage (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 422{a} following), πορνεία is used metaphorically of the worship of idols (Strong's Greek: 4202. πορνεία (porneia) -- fornication)


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[Jonathan_Gale]

What exactly is fornication? I have been accused of using my own definition that I made up, or "cherry picking" the definition from a specific source.
So instead of doing either of those things, I simply typed "definition of fornication" into google. Then I use the first 10 definitions that showed up.


for·ni·ca·tion
/ˌfôrnəˈkāSHən/
Learn to pronounce

noun
FORMAL•HUMOROUS

1. sexual intercourse between people not married to each other.
   "laws forbidding adultery and fornication"

fornication​

noun​

for·ni·ca·tion ˌfȯr-nə-ˈkā-shən

: consensual (see CONSENSUAL sense 2) sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other.

It doesn't always happen that all the definitions of a word are the same, but in this case, I could not find any definition that was different.
The bottom line here is.. if you're having sex with someone you're not married to... you're fornicating.
If one or both of you is married to someone else... then it's adultery. That's a slightly different sin, I will cover later.

You know, by this definition, some people would pick up the spirit of the Pharisees and do "outercourse", meaning all kinds of sexual activities for pleasure EXCEPT vaginal or anal sex, so technically they do not commit fornication, but they've already did in their hearts.

 

[Waggles]

Started watching a British TV series "Baptiste" in which season one is set in the red light district of Amsterdam as the background to the story plot.
After 50 years of feminism and women's liberation and human rights the western world is in a moral wickedness such as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Women and girls ate openly treated as sex slaves for sale just like in ancient Rome or ISIS held Ar Raqqah.
And men and women who go on and on and on about human rights and respect for minority rights, blah, blah, blah - love their pornography and love their red light districts and love sexualising children.
The ruling elites in Brussels always talk about "our values" when defending Europe's right to attack others - Europe is a garden compared to the jungle that is the rest of the world.
Worse is that Europe and the U.S.A. force other nations to accept WOKE policies on abortion, fornication, homosexuality and gender confusion in order to receive foreign aid and loans.
When those who were bestowed with the gifts and oracles of the gospel of salvation turn their backs on the GOD of salvation then there can only be a terrible destruction coming upon those who reject righteousness.

Hebrews 6:7 For land which drinketh the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God:
8 but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is disapproved and nigh a curse; whose end is to be burned.

Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts,
so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

 

[KingJ]

And men and women who go on and on and on about human rights and respect for minority rights, blah, blah, blah