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Gal. 5:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

Now the works of the fleshb are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

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Col. 3:5‑6• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
⁶On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Col. 3:5‑6)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Gal. 5:13,17• ¹³For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
¹⁷For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire; (Gal. 5:13,17)

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Gal. 6:8• ⁸For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life: (Gal. 6:8)

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Psa. 17:4• ⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man. (Psa. 17:4)

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John 3:6• ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

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Rom. 7:5,18,25• ⁵For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
¹⁸For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.
²⁵I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then *I* *myself* with the mind serve God's law; but with the flesh sin's law. (Rom. 7:5,18,25)

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Rom. 8:3,5,9,13• ³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,
⁵For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
⁹But *ye* are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ *he* is not of him:
¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:3,5,9,13)

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1 Cor. 3:3• ³for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man? (1 Cor. 3:3)

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1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

Adultery.

Ezek. 22:6‑13• ⁶Behold, the princes of Israel have been in thee to shed blood, each according to his power.
⁷In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
⁸Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
⁹In thee there have been slanderous men to shed blood; and in thee have they eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of thee they have committed lewdness;
¹⁰in thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her separation.
¹¹And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
¹²In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
¹³And behold, I have smitten mine hand at thine overreaching which thou hast done, and at thy bloodshed which hath been in the midst of thee. (Ezek. 22:6‑13)

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Matt. 15:18‑19• ¹⁸but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.
¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:18‑19)

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Mark 7:21‑23• ²¹For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly;
²³all these wicked things go forth from within and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)

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Rom. 1:21‑32• ²¹Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
²²professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:
²⁵who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;
²⁷and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
²⁸And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;
³²who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them. (Rom. 1:21‑32)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑10• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑10)

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2 Cor. 12:20‑21• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:20‑21)

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Eph. 4:17‑19• ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,
¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. (Eph. 4:17‑19)

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Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.
⁶On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
⁷In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now, put off, *ye* also, all these things, wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:5‑8)

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1 Tim. 1:9‑10• ⁹knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,
¹⁰fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching, (1 Tim. 1:9‑10)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14‑15• ¹⁴but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish. (James 3:14‑15)

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1 Peter 4:3‑4• ³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.
⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you; (1 Peter 4:3‑4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

• First, he refers to the lusts of the flesh, "fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness" (N. Tn.); (“Galatians 5” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

W. Kelly Translation

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,