Porneia
In EnglishSexual immorality
Greek. Explained in a Kingdom Code essay.
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- Greekporneia
Sexual immorality. Paul uses it in 1 Corinthians 5:1 to condemn incest.
How Kingdom Code explains it
Progressive Christianity claims porneia only meant temple prostitution or abusive relationships. But Paul uses the same word in 1 Corinthians 5:1 to explicitly condemn incest, a man sleeping with his father’s wife. If you trust the Gospel writers on Jesus’ use of porneia, you are trusting the same transmission stream that preserved Paul’s clarifications.
From “Progressive Jesus vs. Biblical Jesus”, Substack, 18 May 2026
In the dictionary
- πορνείαporneiaG4202
sexual sin
Full entry
πορνεία, -ας, ἡ
(πορνεύω), [in LXX for תַּזְנוּת and cogn. forms ;]
fornication: Act.15:20, 29 21:25, 1Co.5:1 6:13 6:18, 2Co.12:21, Gal.5:19, Eph.5:3, Col.3:5, 1Th.4:3 (Lft., Notes, 53), Rev.9:21; pl. (see WM, 220; Bl., § 32, 6), 1Co.7:2; disting. from μοιχεία, Mat.15:19, Mrk.7:21; = μοιχεία (Amos 8:17 Sir.23:23, al.), Mat.5:32 19:9. Metaphorical (of idolatry: Deu.23:2, Hos.1:2): Jhn.8:41 (Westc., in l), and so perh. (Thayer-Grimm, see word; but see Swete, in 11.), Rev.2:21 14:18 17:2, 4 18:3 19:2.†
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Verses
Sexual immorality is actually heard [of] among you⁺, and sexual immorality such as [is] not even among the nations, so as for one to have the wife of the father.
1 Corinthians 5:1, Berean Literal Bible