Bible Verses about Homosexuality

by CAPP-USA

While not many, the bible verses that address homosexual behavior are clear and unanimous in their condemnation of it.

Old Testament

1. 1. 1. “God created man in his own image… male and female created he them. And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:27-28)

   With this, Homosexual behavior is identified as a sin against human nature.

2. ‘The men of Sodom are rebuked (Genesis 19:1-11) when, seeking to abuse two angels of God, they called out: ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’ Lot went outside to meet them…and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.” (Genesis 19:24-25).
3. “Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.” (Leviticus 18:22)
4. “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” (Leviticus 20:13)

New Testament

1. 1. 1. “Jesus told them…’But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife], and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” (Mark 10:5-9)

   Here, again, sexual behavior outside this norm is a sin against human nature.

2. “Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Cor 6:9-10
3. St. Paul explained how, having “exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made” (Genesis 1-22) “God gave them over to shameful passions: their wives replaced natural intercourse with unnatural ones, and so also men…became enflamed with lust for one another, and men committed shameful acts with men and received the deserved reward of their deviation.” (Romans 1:26-27).
4. “[T]he law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for…the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality…and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God”. 1 Timothy 1:8-11
5. “Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.” (Jude 1:7)