Brentwood Church of Christ

Amazingly, many in our sinful world do not realize that homosexuality is sin. I have studied with more than one individual who had this persuasion even though they were not homosexuals themselves. I Corinthians 6:9-10 makes it very clear that God condemns homosexuality. The word translated “effeminate” by the King James Version, is translated “homosexual” by the New King James, and “male prostitute” by the New International Version. Thayer says the word means, “soft; soft to the touch…in a bad sense: effeminate, of a catamite, a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness.” The word translated “abusers of themselves with mankind” by the King James Version, is translated “sodomite” by the New King James, and “homosexual offenders” by the New International Version. Thayer says the word means, “one who lies with a male as with a female, a sodomite.” Notice that Paul states that such will not inherit the kingdom of God. Notice also that some in the Corinthian church had formerly practiced homosexuality but now had ceased this practice and had been cleansed by the blood of Christ.

I Timothy 1:9-10 uses this same word, translated “sodomite” by the New King James. In this text Paul says that such is “contrary to sound doctrine.”

In Romans 1:26-27 Paul tells us that the Gentiles turned to “vile passions” and that both men and women turned to homosexuality by exchanging the “natural use” for what was “against nature.” In verse 32 he states that those who practice such things “are worthy of death.”