πορνεύωporneúō

Meanings

Same root

• πόρνηpórnē · G4204a strumpet; figuratively, an idolater
• ἐκπορνεύωekporneúō · G1608to be utterly unchaste
• πορνείαporneía · G4202harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
• 1 Corinthians 10:8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
• Revelation 2:14 “But I have a few complaints against you. You tolerate some among you whose teaching is like that of Balaam, who showed Balak how to trip up the people of Israel. He taught them to sin by eating food offered to idols and by committing sexual sin.
• Revelation 2:20 “But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman—that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet—to lead my servants astray. She teaches them to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols.
• Revelation 17:2 The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
• Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of her passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her. Because of her desires for extravagant luxury, the merchants of the world have grown rich.”