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Example sentences for "fornication"

Lexicographically close words:
formule; forn; fornace; fornenst; fornent; fornications; fornicator; fornicators; forninst; fornix
  1. Schmoelder, Punishment of fornication as a trade.

  2. Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  3. To avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband’ (2 Cor.

  4. He says: “It is right to advise any one to commit a robbery or a fornication in order to avoid a murder.

  5. Moreover fornication is never among the permissible things, nor even the eating of meats offered to idols at the heathen banquet itself.

  6. There is also an urgent warning against fornication (iv.

  7. Footnote 13: The actual outcome is seen in the reduction of the 'burden' to the two items of abstinence from "fornication and from things offered to idols.

  8. It is certain that incest and every species of fornication was commonly practiced, especially in the districts of Vera Cruz, Tamaulipas, and Querétaro.

  9. The Navajo women are very loose, and do not look upon fornication as a crime.

  10. And doth not a soul, sighing after such fictions, commit fornication against Thee, trust in things unreal, and feed the wind?

  11. I committed fornication against Thee, and all around me thus fornicating there echoed "Well done!

  12. Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power: 41:22.

  13. The fornication of a woman shall be known by the haughtiness of her eyes and by her eyelids.

  14. For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

  15. Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

  16. Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.

  17. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: 18:10.

  18. But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

  19. Speed you well, Sir Savil: you may eat at my house to preserve life; but keep no Fornication in the Stables.

  20. We find them pouring out denunciations upon the heads of the people--against adultery, fornication and every species of wickedness.

  21. The terms adultery and fornication are used interchangeably by our Lord, and mean the same thing.

  22. Jesus says, in the 5th chapter, that he that putteth away his wife for any other cause than fornication causes her to commit adultery.

  23. The word translated fornication is from the same Hebrew verb, and in general, signifies criminal, sexual intercourse without the formalities of marriage.

  24. Ever since that time, the alderman is made a cuckold, the deluded virgin is debauched, and adultery and fornication are supposed to be committed behind the scenes, as part of the action.

  25. Our litany calls fornication a deadly sin; and I would appeal to his Lordship for fifty years past, whether he thought that or sacrilege the deadliest?

  26. The same remark applies to the vigorous prosecution of those who held simple fornication to be no sin.

  27. A still more frequent proposition, which gave much trouble to eradicate, was that fornication between unmarried folk is not a mortal sin.

  28. Women found guilty of adultery and fornication were punished at the first rise of Islam, by being literally immured.

  29. And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning.

  30. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

  31. Since, as well as before the time of Henry the Eighth, spiritual fornication has ever been the crime of the "British Establishment.

  32. Thus many a whoremonger hath murdered her that he hath committed fornication with; and many a whore hath murdered her child (before the birth or after) to prevent the shame.

  33. Keep us from fornication and all uncleanness, from chambering and wantonness, from lustful thoughts and filthy communications, and all unchaste behaviour.

  34. And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, 25:2.

  35. Numbers Chapter 25 The people fall into fornication and idolatry; for which twenty-four thousand are slain.

  36. Now, as touching the scandal, the fornicator careth not for it, because he is in the opinion that fornication is indifferent.

  37. The religion of the church was enforced by the sword of the state; and thus did the kings of the earth commit fornication with her,—the idolatries of the church being sanctioned by them.

  38. The secularists call fornication and adultery virtue.

  39. Therefore simple fornication is a criminal or mortal sin.

  40. Moreover, fornication is a sin against God, not directly as though the fornicator intended to offend God, but consequently, in the same way as all mortal sins.

  41. The act of fornication or adultery is not necessarily directed to the preservation of one's own life, as is the act whence sometimes results the taking of a man's life.

  42. Simple fornication is contrary to the love of our neighbor, because it is opposed to the good of the child to be born, as we have shown, since it is an act of generation accomplished in a manner disadvantageous to the future child.

  43. But fornication seems to belong to every kind of sin: for it is written (Ps.

  44. This argument considers spiritual fornication metaphorically so called, which is opposed to spiritual chastity, as stated.

  45. Therefore simple fornication is not a mortal sin.

  46. Now fornication is contrary to the good of the child to be born.

  47. Therefore it seems that fornication is the gravest of sins.

  48. Nor is it true that fornication is the least of the sins comprised under lust, for the marriage act that is done out of sensuous pleasure is a lesser sin.

  49. In chapter 18 the fall of the great city, Babylon is detailed at length, and it is again said that all the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.

  50. The harlot with Babylon stamped on her brow, and the great city of fornication styled Babylon, in chapters 14 and 18, are one and the same existence.

  51. Fornication and adultery, as will be explained later, is a symbol of spiritual idolatry; and the chastity of this redeemed company shows that they were free from the abominations of the apostasy.

  52. God was displeased with Israel, and because of this fornication there fell in one day twenty-four thousand.

  53. A pure, chaste virgin is used to symbolize the true church of God; whereas a corrupt harlot is chosen to represent an apostate church, and fornication her idolatrous worship.

  54. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10.

  55. The preachers of the church never point out any cases when the commandment against fornication ought to be broken, and they always teach that we must avoid the offences which lead to the temptation of fornication.

  56. They actually recognize the commandment against fornication, and so never, under any condition, admit that fornication is not an evil.

  57. Who) have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness, that they have committed.

  58. Although fornication is not graver than other sins, yet men are more prone to it, owing to fleshly concupiscence.

  59. But in a measure the sin of fornication makes one more unfit for receiving this sacrament, because thereby especially the spirit becomes enslaved by the flesh, which is a hindrance to the fervor of love required for this sacrament.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fornication" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.