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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adul-
tery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her
ways... I will repay each of you according to your deeds. (Rev-
elation, 2:20-23)

He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'un-

clean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, de-
ceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these
evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' (Mark,
7:20-23)

But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand.
They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be
caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done.
Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are
blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast
with you. With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning;
they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an ac-

cursed brood! (2 Peter, 2:12-14)

Homosexuality and Perversion
is Forbidden

... God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to
sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one an-

other. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie... Because of
this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same

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