1. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 841b. in consequence of this rare indulgence they would find it a less tyrannical mistress. Let them, therefore, regard privacy in such actions as honorable—sanctioned both by custom and by unwritten law; and want of privacy—yet not the entire avoidance of such actions—as dishonorable. Thus we shall have a second standard of what is honorable and shameful established by law and possessing a second degree of rectitude; and those people of depraved character, whom we describe as self-inferior, and who form a single kind, shall be hemmed in |
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2. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 423e. we are imposing upon them, but they are all easy, provided they guard, as the saying is, the one great thing—or instead of great let us call it sufficient. What is that? he said. Their education and nurture, I replied. For if a right education makes of them reasonable men they will easily discover everything of this kind—and other principles that we now pass over, as that the possession of wives and marriage |
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3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 135 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
| 135. As men, being unable to bear discreetly a satiety of these things, get restive like cattle, and become stiff-necked, and discard the laws of nature, pursuing a great and intemperate indulgence of gluttony, and drinking, and unlawful connections; for not only did they go mad after women, and defile the marriage bed of others, but also those who were men lusted after one another, doing unseemly things, and not regarding or respecting their common nature, and though eager for children, they were convicted by having only an abortive offspring; but the conviction produced no advantage, since they were overcome by violent desire; |
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4. Musonius Rufus, Dissertationum A Lucio Digestarum Reliquiae, 6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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5. New Testament, Ephesians, 5.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 5.5. Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. |
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6. New Testament, Galatians, 5.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 5.21. envyings,murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which Iforewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practicesuch things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. |
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7. New Testament, Romans, 2.5-2.8, 8.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 2.5. But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 2.6. who "will pay back to everyone according to their works: 2.7. to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life; 2.8. but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation 8.13. For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. |
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8. New Testament, Mark, 10.14 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 10.14. But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. |
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