Thesaurus / fornication

fornication

How to use fornication in a sentence

And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.

And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.

It signifies a state of depravity,—a quality, and not an act,—and never can be properly translated by "adultery" or "fornication."

Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

With this spiritual fornication, an idolatrous worship, there was connected the grossest lusts of the flesh.

Who can draw the conclusion, that he that has committed fornication cannot be more chaste in marriage?

That the lust of fornication is not the lust of adultery, every one sees clearly from common perception.

The reason why this is seen from common perception is, because fornication is not opposed to conjugial love as adultery is.

That this is not the case with those who in fornication look to adultery, will be seen in the next article.

It is said the lust of fornication such as it is in the beginning, because at that time it is in a middle state.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985