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

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Eph. 5:3‑6• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3‑6)

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Col. 3:5‑6• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]: (Col. 3:5‑6)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Gal. 5:13,17• ¹³For ye have been called for freedom, brethren: only [use] not your freedom for an opportunity to the flesh; but by love serve one another.
¹⁷For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things are opposed one to another, that ye should not do those things which ye would; (Gal. 5:13,17)

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Gal. 6:8• ⁸for he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. (Gal. 6:8)

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Psa. 17:4• (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 that [were] by the law wrought in our members bringing forth fruit to death;
¹⁸For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, no good dwelleth; for to will is present with me, but to work out the right [is] not;
²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I myself with the mind am serving 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, condemned sin in the flesh,
⁵For those that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.
⁹Ye however are not in flesh but in Spirit, if so be God's Spirit dwell in you. But if anyone has not Christ's Spirit, he is not of him.
¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if by [the] Spirit ye mortify 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 emulation and strife [are] among you, 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 time in flesh to men's lusts but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

Adultery.

Ezek. 22:6‑13• (Ezek. 22:6‑13)

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Matt. 15:18‑19• ¹⁸{i}but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.{/i}
¹⁹{i}For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;{/i} (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, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
²²Professing to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures].
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness so that their bodies were dishonoured among them;
²⁵which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen.
²⁶On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
²⁷and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.
²⁸And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:21‑32)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑10• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom. (1 Cor. 6:9‑10)

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2 Cor. 12:20‑21• ²⁰For I fear lest by any means on coming I find you not such as I wish, and I be found by you such as ye wish not; lest by any means [there be] strife, jealousy, wraths, feuds, slanderings, whisperings, swellings, confusions;
²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (2 Cor. 12:20‑21)

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Eph. 4:17‑19• ¹⁷This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,
¹⁸being darkened in the understanding, estranged from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardening of their heart,
¹⁹who, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness. (Eph. 4:17‑19)

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Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]:
⁷in which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: 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 is not laid down for a righteous person, but for lawless and insubordinate, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers, for murderers,
¹⁰fornicators, sodomites, menstealers, liars, perjurers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound teaching, (1 Tim. 1:9‑10)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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James 3:14‑15• ¹⁴But if ye have bitter emulation and faction in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
¹⁵This wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, natural, demoniacal. (James 3:14‑15)

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1 Peter 4:3‑4• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:3‑4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth 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,