porneia · sexual immorality

What it means

porneia (πορνεία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sexual immorality”.

Any sexual relationship outside marriage.

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. Having sex outside marriage.
2. Being unfaithful to God by going after idols.

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

How it is translated

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

• sexual immorality ×23
• sexual immoralities ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• John×1
• Acts×3
• 1 Corinthians×5
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×7

• Matthew 5:32

  But I tell you that everyone who sends away his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who has been sent away commits adultery.

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

• Matthew 19:9

  And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the heart of people, come the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

• John 8:41

  You are doing the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality; we have one Father: God.”

• Acts 15:20

  but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

• Acts 21:25

  But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.”

• 1 Corinthians 5:1

  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even among the nations, that someone has his father’s wife.

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both the one and the other. But the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

  But because of the cases of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

• 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 5:3

  But sexual immorality and all impurity or greed, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

• Colossians 3:5

  So put to death the members that are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3

  For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

• Revelation 2:21

  And I gave her time to change her mind, and she does not want to change her mind from her sexual immorality.

• Revelation 9:21

  and they did not change their minds from their murders or from their sorceries or from their sexual immorality or from their thefts.

• Revelation 14:8

  And another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:2

  with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:4

  And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality,

• Revelation 18:3

  because all the nations have fallen from the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the power of her luxury.”

• Revelation 19:2

  because true and righteous are his judgments; because he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his slaves at her hand.”

And 1 more times.