aselgeia · debauchery

What it means

aselgeia (ἀσέλγεια) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “debauchery”.

Unrestrained immorality, debauchery.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Living without restraint or shame.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• debauchery ×7
• debaucheries ×2
• sensuality ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×3
• Jude×1

• Mark 7:22

  adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness.

• Romans 13:13

  As in the day, let us walk decently, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sexual excess and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy.

• 2 Corinthians 12:21

  that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned before and have not changed their minds about the impurity and sexual immorality and debauchery that they practiced.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

• Ephesians 4:19

  who, having become callous, gave over themselves to debauchery for the practice of every impurity with greed.

• 1 Peter 4:3

  For the time that has passed is enough for doing what the nations want, having walked in debauchery, desires, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

• 2 Peter 2:2

  And many will follow their debaucheries, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

• 2 Peter 2:7

  and rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the conduct in debauchery of the lawless

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For uttering swelling words of futility, they entice with desires of the flesh, with debaucheries, those who are barely escaping from those who live in error,

• Jude 1:4

  For certain men have slipped in, who long ago were written about beforehand for this judgment, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.