Meaning of “lewdness”
Lewdness — (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word "lewd" is from the Saxon, and means properly "ignorant," "unlearned," and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5).
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Bible Search for “lewdness”
Judges Chapter 20 Verse 6 — And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. Jeremiah Chapter 11 Verse 15 — What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. Jeremiah Chapter 13 Verse 27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? Ezekiel Chapter 16 Verse 58 — Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. Ezekiel Chapter 16 Verse 43 — Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. Ezekiel Chapter 22 Verse 9 — In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 49 — And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 48 — Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 35 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 29 — And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 27 — Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. Ezekiel Chapter 23 Verse 21 — Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. Ezekiel Chapter 24 Verse 13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. Hosea Chapter 2 Verse 10 — And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. Hosea Chapter 6 Verse 9 — And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. Acts Chapter 18 Verse 14 — And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
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