How To Use Fornication In A Sentence
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I would not for my life commit a mortal sin; but even should it come to that, I know that simple fornication is not to be compared to the sin of homicide.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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Most pastors graciously welcome these couples as good people, even though their official church teaching may condemn this cohabitation as fornication, a damnable sin.
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Praying Indians were fined or punished if they did not work, committed fornication, beat their wives, or wandered between wigwams instead of setting up their own.
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¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.
Colossians 3.
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And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Fecisti quod quædam mulieres solent, quoddam molimen, aut machinamentum in modum virilis membri ad mensuram tuæ voluptatis, et illud loco verendorum tuorum aut alterius cum aliquibus ligaturis, ut fornicationem faceres cum aliis mulieribus, vel alia eodem instrumento, sive alio tecum?
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional
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Everything in Ireland that was once concealed is now, for them, fair game: Is the Church still against fornication?
The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review
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And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Later Articles and Reviews
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They include theft, adultery and fornication, wine drinking, highway banditry, apostasy to of the faith and rebellion.
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So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized.
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The image of a harlot's hire for the supposed temporal reward of spiritual fornication, is more common in Scripture (Ho 9: 1).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They deny themselves to be a generation of idolaters: "We are not born of fornication, are not the children of idolatrous parents, nor have been bred up in idolatrous worships.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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In Couples, however, it is ultimately the community that rots under the weight of accumulated fornication: wives go to therapy to understand their unhappiness aka, "frigidity" and one ultimately work up the courage to leave her husband.
Adultery Carnival: John Updike's Couples and the Sexual Revolution
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Somebody born in the late 1890's might have viewed this couple as a trull and a roué, and been convinced they would burn in Hell for fornication.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Howsoever in public they pretend much zeal, seem to be very holy men, and bitterly preach against adultery, fornication, there are no verier bawds or whoremasters in a country; [5221] whose soul they should gain to
Anatomy of Melancholy
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They include theft, adultery and fornication, wine drinking, highway banditry, apostasy to of the faith and rebellion.
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The majority of people in society may come to regard fornication, adultery and casual sexual relationships with intolerance, indignation and disgust.
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These arcade dens were called "fornices," from which comes our generic fornication.
Satyricon
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Fornication is a crime in some American states.
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I think fornication is better for you, the stones are smaller ….
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Romantic fable though it may be, this film's approach to romance is chaste, indeed: there are no embraces, nor is there any kissing or touching, let alone nudity and fornication.
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Don't they have to wear some kind of adult undergarment "onesie," during fornication anyway?
Blisstree
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Al – Usirat,69 whence cometh the Comorin aloes-wood and thence to another island, five days’ journey in length, where grows the Chinese lign-aloes, which is better than the Comorin; but the people of this island70 are fouler of condition and religion than those of the other, for that they love fornication and wine-bibbing, and know not prayer nor call to prayer.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money.
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and slanders.
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That they should be very strict in censuring those that were guilty of fornication, or marrying within the degrees prohibited by the Levitical law, which, some think, is principally intended here.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Thus, laws criminalizing acts like adultery, spousal or parental abandonment, bastardy, prostitution, and fornication appeared.
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It was in a particular manner noted for fornication, insomuch that a Corinthian woman was a proverbial phrase for a strumpet, and korinthiazein, korinthiasesthai -- to play the Corinthian, is to play the whore, or indulge whorish inclinations.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Comorin aloes-wood and thence to another island, five days 'journey in length, where grows the Chinese lign-aloes, which is better than the Comorin; but the people of this island [FN#70] are fouler of condition and religion than those of the other, for that they love fornication and wine-bibbing, and know not prayer nor call to prayer.
Arabian nights. English
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To those whom I have told this story since, some have disputed whether this was correct application of the sharia, primarily upon two grounds: (1) that she was not a Believer, and therefore sharia cannot apply, or (2) that the punishment for fornication is merely a hundred lashes, not the death by stoning required for adultery.
The Parable of the Spider
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Words that sound funny after you say them repeatedly (ex. “tampons,” “smorgasbord,” “gleen”) and what they start to sound like (gleen=the word for fornication in the language of Sleestacks).
Intersomnolence
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Fornication of such a gross kind as (exists) not even among the heathen, so that one (of you) hath (in concubinage) his father's wife," that is, his stepmother, while his father is still alive (2Co 7: 12; compare Le 18: 8).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Note, The sin of fornication is a great injury in a Christian to his head and lord, and
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Such a reading would throw laws against fornication, adultery, and even adult incest into question.
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He thus has the knowledge that he should avoid fornication, but he fornicates nonetheless because he actually sees the fornication as an act of pleasure to be pursued.
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Matthew 19: 9 – And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
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In the first Epistle which we have, the subject of fornication is alluded to only in a way, as if he were rather replying to an excuse set up after rebuke in the matter, than introducing for the first time [Alford].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Fornication is a crime in some American states.
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With the publication of "Human Sexual Response" in 1966 and "Human Sexual Inadequacy" four years later, however, the nation finally had a chance to learn the fundamentals of fornication: women can be multiorgasmic; intercourse may continue well into one's 80s; clitoral orgasms are hardly inferior to their vaginal counterparts; and so forth.
Sexual Masters of the Universe
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Now, that is spiritual guidance, you fusty old Scottish cardinals bleating on about the evils of fornication and alienating everyone under 100.
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She would have opened the door to the house around six thirty, which would have coincided with the sins of adultery and fornication being committed on the couch at Mr. Armstrong's house.
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Just thinking about medieval Castile, which is the historical period and location I know best, Among the Visigoths adulterium (illicit sexual intercourse of many kinds) and stuprum (usually fornication with an unmarried woman or widow) were most serious matters and, while illegal sexual relations were an implicit danger in the grave offence of abduction, kidnapping for the purpose of matrimony was the pernicious offence in raptus.
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The Duke's attempt to regulate sexual behaviour and reproduction is inspired less by religion than by fear of the consequences unrestricted fornication would have for the political and social order.
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Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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I am a retired Pastor but if I lived out my days in open, proud adultery and, after my wife divorced me, fornication and died unrepentant, no Church would bury me, let alone one to which I did not belong, had never had any spiritual authority over me, and in whose community my profligacy were a byword.
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Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect (Jer 3: 1-15; Eze 16: 1-17: 24) [Trench].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Peace be on those who follow in the way of Salvation, fearing the issues of fornication, and obey the hest of the Most High King, Lord of this world and the next, Him who saith to a thing, ‘Be’; and it becometh!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Here, as in Eph 5: 3, 5, "covetousness" is joined with "fornication": the common fount of both being "the fierce and ever fiercer longing of the creature, which has turned from God, to fill itself with the inferior objects of sense" [Trench, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And the consequences of fornication or adultery are not only restricted to the parties involved in these immoral acts.
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Angelo thus becomes a white-suited district officer who condemns the Eurasian Claudio for fornication while lusting after his novitiate sister, Isabella.
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The next word on our list is adulteries or the Greek word moy-khi-ah which is very close to what follows the word translated fornications which is por-ni-ah.
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