What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality

October 19, 2026

Scriptures about marriage, sexual relations, and homosexual relationships. This page contains only the text of Scripture, without commentary.

13 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible

Genesis 1:27–28

27 And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea [and over the animals,] and over the birds of the air, [and over every beast, and over all the earth,] and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be [the two] one flesh.

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Matthew 19:4–6

4 He answered them, “Have you not read that the Creator ‘made them male and female’ at the beginning? 5 And He said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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Genesis 19:1–13

1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “My lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, spend the night, wash your feet, and rise early and go on your way.” But they said, “No, we will spend the night in the street.” 3 But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city, the men of Sodom, young and old, all the people from every quarter of the city, surrounded the house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.” 6 Lot went out to them at the entrance and shut the door behind him, 7 and said, “My brothers, do not act wickedly. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you wish. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” 9 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came as a foreigner, and now he wants to judge us! We will treat you worse than them.” Then they pressed hard against the man, Lot, and came near to break down the door. 10 But the men reached out their hands, brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the entrance of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the entrance. 12 Then the men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else you have in the city—bring them out of this place, 13 because we are about to destroy this place, for the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

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Leviticus 18:22

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

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Leviticus 20:13

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.

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Romans 1:24–27

24 Therefore God gave them over to the sinful desires of their hearts, to impurity, so that they dishonored their own bodies. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to shameful passions. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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1 Corinthians 6:9–11

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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1 Timothy 1:9–11

9 knowing that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, men who have sex with men, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 which conforms to the Gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

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Jude 1:7

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities gave themselves up to sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire. They serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

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John 3:16–17

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

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John 8:10–11

10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”]]

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1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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