πορνεύω
porneuō
“to sin sexually”
Definition
to act the harlot, i.e. (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex), or (figuratively) practise idolatry
from G4204 (πόρνη);
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Occurrences
πορνεύω appears 7 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”
All the nations have drunk the wineof the passion of her immorality.The kings of the earth were immoral with her,and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthyfrom the extravagance of her luxury.”
Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
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