Leviticus 18:24 Cross References - BSB

²⁴ Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

³ You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

⁶ None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. ⁷ You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. ⁸ You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father. ⁹ You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. ¹⁰ You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family. ¹¹ You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister. ¹² You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative. ¹³ You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative. ¹⁴ You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt. ¹⁵ You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her. ¹⁶ You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother. ¹⁷ You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. ¹⁸ You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive. ¹⁹ You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period. ²⁰ You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her. ²¹ You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. ²² You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. ²³ You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.

³⁰ You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

²² You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out. ²³ You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

³¹ You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

¹² For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

⁴ Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. ²⁰ These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”

¹⁰ For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ ¹¹ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), ¹² he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. ¹³ Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.” ¹⁴ Once again Jesus called the crowd to Him and said, “All of you, listen to Me and understand: ¹⁵ Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.” ^{16 17} After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable. ¹⁸ “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, ¹⁹ because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.) ²⁰ He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, ²² greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. ²³ All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.