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  • noun Plural form of fornication.

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  • In Mt. 15: 19, "fornications" is replaced with "sexually immoral thoughts and acts".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In Mt. 15: 19, "fornications" is replaced with "sexually immoral thoughts and acts".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "fornications" refer us back to the prevailing religion of that time, as we have seen in xiv. 4, 5, above; and this is the cause of her judgment.

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • "fornications," marks irregular lusts, as contrasted with the unity of the marriage relation [Bengel]. let every man have -- a positive command to all who have not the gift of continency, in fact to the great majority of the world (1Co 7: 5).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • If that wasn't enough, he was still using a cosy little property of mine on Hay Hill to conduct his furtive fornications with the worst sort of women, duchesses and actresses and the like.

    Watershed 2010

  • Once in prison, the girl promptly informed the authorities that she was a witch, that her mother and another woman were also witches, and that the three of them had made a pact with the Devil and had regularly flown (as witches always did) to the witches 'dances (the Witches' Sabbath), where, according to the girl, all sorts of disgusting orgiastic rituals and fornications and blasphemies occurred by the eerie light of the moon.

    Dan Agin: A Demon in the Head I: Madness and Murderous Violence 2009

  • The price paid for homosexuality and other fornications are told in:

    Bribed to attend gay pride parade « Anglican Samizdat 2009

  • The next word on our list is adulteries or the Greek word moy-khi-ah which is very close to what follows the word translated fornications which is por-ni-ah.

    Think Progress » Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran 2006

  • In subsequent passages the Nahum Pesher quotes additional verses from Nahum to describe a change in government and the reign of a woman: “Because of the countless fornications of the prostitute, the alluring mistress of sorcery, who ensnares nations with her harlotries and people with her sorcery” Nahum 3:4.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008

  • In subsequent passages the Nahum Pesher quotes additional verses from Nahum to describe a change in government and the reign of a woman: “Because of the countless fornications of the prostitute, the alluring mistress of sorcery, who ensnares nations with her harlotries and people with her sorcery” Nahum 3:4.

    Women Who Ruled: Salome Alexandra Jan 2008

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