⁵ They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”^(A)

¹³ If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman,^(A) they have both committed a detestable thing.^(B) They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.^[a]

¹⁸ Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s^[a] earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

From Idolatry to Depravity

²⁶ This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions.^(A) For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations^[a] for unnatural ones. ²⁷ The males in the same way also left natural relations^[b] with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males^(B) and received in their own persons^[c] the appropriate penalty of their error.

⁹ Don’t you know that the unrighteous^(A) will not inherit God’s kingdom?^(B) Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,^(C) adulterers,^(D) or anyone practicing homosexuality,^{[a](E) 10} no thieves,^(F) greedy^(G) people, drunkards, verbally abusive people,^(H) or swindlers^(I) will inherit God’s kingdom. ¹¹ And some of you used to be like this.^(J) But you were washed, you were sanctified,^(K) you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

²¹ envy,^[a](A) drunkenness, carousing,^(B) and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.^(C)

¹⁰ for the sexually immoral^(A) and homosexuals,^(B) for kidnappers,^[a] liars,^(C) perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching^(D)

⁸ But the cowards, unbelievers,^[a] vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,^(A) which is the second death.”