What the Bible Says About Gender, Marriage, Fornication, Adultery, Rape, Incest, Homosexuality, Bestiality, and Prostitution

Footnotes

[1] Gen. 1:28.

[2] Robert A. J. Gagnon, “Sexuality,” in Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, ed. Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 739.

[3] Gen. 2:24.

[4] Mark 10:6–8.

[5] Eph. 5:31.

[6] Tikva Frymer-Kensky, “Sex and Sexuality,” in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 1144.

[7] Stanley Grenz, Sexual Ethics: A Biblical Perspective (Dallas: Word, 1990), 82.

[8] Gen. 2:18-25.

[9] Gen. 2:18-25.

[10] Gen. 24:1–67.

[11] Gen. 24:67.

[12] Gen. 29:20.

[13] Gen. 4:18-24.

[14] Gen. 29:14–29.

[15] Gen. 16:1-16.

[16] Gen. 29:31–30:24.

[17] Gen. 6:1–2.

[18] Gen. 26:34–35.

[19] Gen. 29:31.

[20] Gen. 21:8–14.

[21] Gen. 23:1–2 and 25:1.

[22] Frymer-Kensky, “Sex,” 1144.

[23] Frymer-Kensky, “Sex,” 1145.

[24] Martin Noth, Leviticus, rev. ed., Old Testament Library (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977), 136.

[25] Williams, “Sexuality,” 731.

[26] Gen. 16:3.

[27] Gen. 2:18; Matt. 19:4-6.

[28] Gen. 4:19–24.

[29] Gen. 25:28, 27:1–45, 35:22, 38:18–28; 2 Sam. 3:2–5, 13:1–29, 15:1–18:33; I Kings 11:1–4.

[30] 1 Tim. 3:2, 12.

[31] Grenz, Sexual Ethics, 70–71.

[32] Gagnon, “Sexuality,” 740.

[33] Ibid., 741.

[34] Ibid.

[35] Williams, “Sexuality,” 727.

[36] Psalm 106:39; Prov. 30:11–12; Mark 7:20.

[37] Lev. 16:30.

[38] Jer. 33:8.

[39] Zech. 13:1.