Bible Verses About Gays
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gays, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,948 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gays
1 Corinthians 6:9-11381 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 1:26-28250 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:
Jude 1:7250 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.
Romans 1:32218 votes
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
2 Timothy 4:3214 votes
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Acts 5:29196 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Leviticus 18:22176 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Romans 13:8-10160 votes
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Matthew 7:1-29148 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Leviticus 20:13118 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.
1 John 4:20118 votes
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Isaiah 56:3-5102 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.
Galatians 3:2876 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.
James 4:1274 votes
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
1 Timothy 5:866 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.
Proverbs 6:16-1951 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Matthew 19:1-3048 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;
2 Peter 2:6-936 votes
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter 2:12-3:1336 votes
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
1 Kings 14:2422 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.
2 Kings 23:722 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.
Leviticus 18:1-3018 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Jeremiah 50:42-51:118 votes
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
Galatians 5:1-6:1818 votes
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Deuteronomy 28:25-4314 votes
The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
What does the Bible say about gays?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 on the subject of gays. Across 3,948 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 1:26-28, Jude 1:7, Romans 1:32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.