Bible Verses About Gayness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gayness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,220 votes, led by Leviticus 18:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gayness
Leviticus 18:22177 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Jude 1:7125 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Leviticus 20:1385 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.
Romans 1:26-2784 votes
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
1 Corinthians 6:9-1068 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 1:2765 votes
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Genesis 19:1-2556 votes
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Matthew 19:4-652 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6-952 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Isaiah 56:3-545 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.
Genesis 19:1-1344 votes
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
1 Timothy 1:9-1036 votes
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
James 4:1234 votes
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
1 Timothy 1:1032 votes
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Romans 13:8-1031 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1131 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,
Galatians 5:1431 votes
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 Timothy 5:831 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew 7:1-528 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Matthew 19:11-1228 votes
But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Galatians 3:2827 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 22:3922 votes
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
1 Corinthians 7:216 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Matthew 7:1210 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
1 Corinthians 7:7-910 votes
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
What does the Bible say about gayness?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 18:22 on the subject of gayness. Across 1,220 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jude 1:7, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.