Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Word Study on “fornication”
Making the issue clear!
SEXUAL IMMORALITY (NIV) = FORNICATION (AV) = PORNEIA (GK)
FORNICATION…[for nih KAY shun]-sexual relationships outside the bonds of marriage. The technical distinction between fornication and ADULTERY is that adultery involves married persons while fornication involves those who are unmarried. But the New Testament often uses the term in a general sense for any unchastity. Of the seven lists of sins found in the writings of the apostle Paul, the word fornication is found in five of them and is first on the list each time (1 Cor 5:11; Col 3:5--Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.)
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c)1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
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FORNICATION…(Grk. porneia). Used of illicit sexual intercourse in general (Acts 15:20,29; 21:25; cf. 1 Cor 5:1; 6:13,18; 7:2; etc.). It is distinguished from "adultery" (Grk. moicheia, in Matt 15:19; Mark 7:21). The NIV usually translates porneia as "sexual immorality" and moicheia as "adultery."…At the present time adultery is the term used of such an act when the person is married, fornication when unmarried; and fornication may be defined as lewdness of an unmarried person of either sex. Its prohibition rests on the ground that it discourages marriage, leaves the education and care of children insecure, depraves and defiles the mind more than any other vice, and thus makes one unfit for God’s kingdom.
(From The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.)
N.T. References containing the word “porneia”
Matt 15:19
Mark 7:21
Acts 15:20
Acts 15:29
Acts 21:25
Rom 13:13
1 Cor 5:1
1 Cor 6:13
1 Cor 6:18
1 Cor 10:8
Gal 5:19
Eph 5:3
Col 3:5
1 Thess 4:3
Jude 7
Rev 2:14
Rev 2:20
Rev 9:21
N.T. Verses containing the word “porneia” (translated: sexual immorality)
Matthew 15:19…For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Mark 7:21…For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery
Acts 15:20…telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
Acts 15:29…You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Acts 21:25…As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality."
Romans 13:13…Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
1 Corinthians 5:1…It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 6:13 b…The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:18…Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 10:8…We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did-and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Galatians 5:19…The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Ephesians 5:3…But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.
Colossians 3:5…Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:3…It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; { 4) that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5) not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 6) and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him.}
Jude 7…In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 2:14…Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. NIV
Revelation 2:20…Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. NIV
Revelation 9:21…Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Other important passages dealing with the concepts…
“ONE FLESH”
1 Cor 6:13-7:1…The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14) By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16) Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17) But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
“YOUR BODY BELONGS TO YOUR PARTNER”
1 Cor 7:2-5…2) But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3) The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4) The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. 5) Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
SCOPE OF ADULTERY
Matt. 5:28…But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Lustfully = “longing after”)
SEXUAL IMMORALITY (NIV) = FORNICATION (AV) = PORNEIA (GK)
FORNICATION…[for nih KAY shun]-sexual relationships outside the bonds of marriage. The technical distinction between fornication and ADULTERY is that adultery involves married persons while fornication involves those who are unmarried. But the New Testament often uses the term in a general sense for any unchastity. Of the seven lists of sins found in the writings of the apostle Paul, the word fornication is found in five of them and is first on the list each time (1 Cor 5:11; Col 3:5--Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.)
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Copyright (c)1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
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FORNICATION…(Grk. porneia). Used of illicit sexual intercourse in general (Acts 15:20,29; 21:25; cf. 1 Cor 5:1; 6:13,18; 7:2; etc.). It is distinguished from "adultery" (Grk. moicheia, in Matt 15:19; Mark 7:21). The NIV usually translates porneia as "sexual immorality" and moicheia as "adultery."…At the present time adultery is the term used of such an act when the person is married, fornication when unmarried; and fornication may be defined as lewdness of an unmarried person of either sex. Its prohibition rests on the ground that it discourages marriage, leaves the education and care of children insecure, depraves and defiles the mind more than any other vice, and thus makes one unfit for God’s kingdom.
(From The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.)
N.T. References containing the word “porneia”
Matt 15:19
Mark 7:21
Acts 15:20
Acts 15:29
Acts 21:25
Rom 13:13
1 Cor 5:1
1 Cor 6:13
1 Cor 6:18
1 Cor 10:8
Gal 5:19
Eph 5:3
Col 3:5
1 Thess 4:3
Jude 7
Rev 2:14
Rev 2:20
Rev 9:21
N.T. Verses containing the word “porneia” (translated: sexual immorality)
Matthew 15:19…For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Mark 7:21…For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery
Acts 15:20…telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
Acts 15:29…You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Acts 21:25…As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality."
Romans 13:13…Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
1 Corinthians 5:1…It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.
1 Corinthians 6:13 b…The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:18…Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 10:8…We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did-and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Galatians 5:19…The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Ephesians 5:3…But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.
Colossians 3:5…Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:3…It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; { 4) that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5) not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 6) and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him.}
Jude 7…In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 2:14…Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. NIV
Revelation 2:20…Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. NIV
Revelation 9:21…Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Other important passages dealing with the concepts…
“ONE FLESH”
1 Cor 6:13-7:1…The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14) By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16) Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." 17) But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
“YOUR BODY BELONGS TO YOUR PARTNER”
1 Cor 7:2-5…2) But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3) The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4) The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. 5) Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
SCOPE OF ADULTERY
Matt. 5:28…But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Lustfully = “longing after”)
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Gary
It will be more appropriate if I answer your questions via email
I am more than hapy to help with some protocols and can give you some tips re blogs, security and risks etc
email me at tim at millerfamily dot biz and i will answer all your original questions
I think we have a bunch of things in common. I was actually sent a link to your web site by a friend in the states who said just that!
Tim
It will be more appropriate if I answer your questions via email
I am more than hapy to help with some protocols and can give you some tips re blogs, security and risks etc
email me at tim at millerfamily dot biz and i will answer all your original questions
I think we have a bunch of things in common. I was actually sent a link to your web site by a friend in the states who said just that!
Tim
This is inaccurate. Fornication is not defined as such in the references you give. Dictionary (when reading FULL definition entry including when pertinent to biblical definitions), Greek, Latin and Hebrew definitions of fornication do not stipulate extra marital sex. This article is erroneous prejudicial and not cited.
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