noun
definition
Sexual intercourse by people who are not married, or which is considered illicit in another way.
definition
Sexual intercourse in general; sex.
Examples of fornication in a Sentence
Three groups of sins, classified as (I) idolatry, which included apostasy, (2) adultery or fornication, and (3) murder, were held to exclude the guilty person from sharing in the eucharist until death, that is to say, if he had committed the sin after baptism.
It is good for a man not to touch a woman; a man's relations with his own wife are merely a means of fornication, and marriage and concubinage are indistinguishable as against the kingdom of God, in which there is no marrying or giving in marriage.
Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
He doesn't choose ' fornication ', He chooses the word ' adultery ' .
When He uses the word ' fornication ' He always uses it in a narrow sense.
Many of the pagan shrines featured temple prostitutes, with whom acts of fornication were deemed religious experiences.
Fame, Fortune and Fornication is a cover album of popular songs by other artists.
The album was later followed by Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free and 2009's Fame, Fortune and Fornication.
This Raba., the mother of falsehood and lies, of poisoning and fornication is an anti-Christian parody of the Ruha d'Qudsha (Holy Spirit) of the Syriac Church.
In 1543 he quitted Frankfort for a similar position at Leipzig, his contention that it was the duty of the civil magistrate to punish fornication, and his sudden departure, having given offence to the authorities of the former university.
They had to avoid idolatry, sorcery, avarice, falsehood, fornication, &c.; above all, they were not allowed to kill any living being (the ten commandments of Mani).
Codex Sinaiticus, codex Sinaiticus, Codex Ephraemi, Codex Regius Whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another commits adultery.
The strict moral climate of the day would have classed her fornication as highly disobedient.
Notice what is recorded at the end of verse fourteen in Revelation two, " they commit fornication.