In the Bible, sexual immorality means sexual relations outside the marriage of a man and a woman. The New Testament word is porneia, which the King James Version translates “fornication,” and it covers adultery, sex before marriage, incest and prostitution. Sex within marriage is not immoral, and the letters that warn against porneia also promise forgiveness for it. What does the word porneia mean? Porneia comes from pornē, the Greek word for a prostitute. Thayer’s Greek lexicon traces pornē to…

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