Bible Verses About Being Gay
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being gay, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 11,639 votes, led by Leviticus 20:13. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Gay
Leviticus 20:131,093 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 18:221,006 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11879 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Romans 1:1-32444 votes
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
1 Kings 14:24327 votes
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
Romans 13:8-10309 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Isaiah 56:3-5292 votes
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Matthew 19:1-30268 votes
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
1 Kings 15:12242 votes
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Ezekiel 16:49-50221 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
1 Timothy 1:1-20206 votes
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
Judges 19:1-30189 votes
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.
Revelation 21:8186 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Deuteronomy 23:1184 votes
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
Mark 7:20-23144 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Genesis 18:1-19:38137 votes
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
2 Kings 23:7137 votes
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
John 1:12128 votes
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Acts 8:26-40119 votes
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Romans 2:1-29102 votes
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
1 Kings 22:4691 votes
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
Leviticus 26:11-4288 votes
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Luke 5:28-7:4788 votes
And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Acts 10:1-4888 votes
There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
Genesis 21:1-22:2484 votes
And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
What does the Bible say about being gay?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 20:13 on the subject of being gay. Across 11,639 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 18:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Romans 1:1-32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.