Lesson 28 Amplified – PONERIA

 

PONERIA

American: depravity 

PORNEIA – PORNEIAI

singular -- plural

American: whoring(s), incest(s), non-marital sexual intercourse(s) 

PORNEUO

American: indulge in sexual lust 

PORNE – PORNAI

singular -- plural

American: whore(s), prostitute(s) 

PORNOS – PORNOI

singular -- plural

American: male prostitute(s) 

Sexual hamartia is a very unpleasant subject, but it is dealt with at length in the New Blood Covenant or New Testament. 

Almost Greek: [Words in italics are translator’s additions.]

 1^st Thessalonians 4: Finally (then), Brothers, we request of you and parakaloumen [invite, exhort] you in the Kurios Jesus, even as you received from us how it is necessary to walk and to please Theos in order that you superabound the more. For you know what commands we gave to you via the Kurios Jesus. For this is the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos, your purification: for you to abstain from porneia, for each one of you knows how to possess his own vessel [body] in hagiasmos [holiness, purity] and time [value, esteem]; not in passion of forbidden desire, as the ethnoi [nations, non-Jews, Gentiles] not knowing Theos.

1st Corinthians 5.7: Then thoroughly cleanse away the old leaven in order that you may be a new mass of dough (just as if you are unleavened). For our Passover Lamb was sacrificed for us, the Christos. So, let us keep feast, not with old leaven; not with leaven of kakia [worthlessness] and of ponerias; conversely, with the unleavened bread of clarity and of truth. I write to you (in this letter) not closely and habitually to associate with pornois, but not entirely to shun all the pornois of this kosmou [universe, world, cosmos]; not with the greedy; nor with plunderers; nor with idolaters. Therefore, you might think that I am telling you that you must issue forth emergent from the kosmou. But (actually) I write to you not to associate with anyone if he is called a brother! who is either pornos or greedy or an idolater or abusive or a drunkard or a plunderer. 

1^st Corinthians 6.9: Or not know you that those adikeo [being unjust] won't be heirs to the Kingdom of Theos? Do not be led astray! Not pornoi nor idolaters nor moichoi [adulterers] nor effeminate nor sodomites nor thieves nor greedy nor drunkards nor revilers nor plunderers; in no way shall they be heirs to the Kingdom of Theos. 

1^st Corinthians 6.15: The soma isn’t for porneia, conversely, for the Kurio and the Kurios for the somati [body]. Now, Theos also awakened (from death) our Kurion and will fully rouse us from death via his dunameos [force, power]. Don’t you know that your somata are limbs of the Christou? Then shall I take the limbs of the Christou and make of them pornes [of a whore] limbs? Not let it be caused to be! Or don’t you know that he being joined [coupled] to a porne is being in one soma with her? For he says,

“The two will be into one flesh.”

GENESIS 2.24: [Adam prophesying] “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall impinge [ram, couple, cling, adhere] to his woman [wife] and they shall be into one flesh.” 

1^st Corinthians 6:18: Flee porneian! Every other hamartema [miss of the mark, goal; offense, sin] that a man may do is outside the somatos of the man, but he doing porneuon commits hamartanei into his own soma. 

Ephisians 6,10: For the rest, my brothers, be empowered in the Kurio and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of Theos for you to be able to stand against the wiles of the diabolou [leader to shame, devil, satyr], because it isn’t us wrestling against flesh and blood but against the chiefs, against the forces, against the kosmos-rulers of the shadiness of this age, against the pneumatika [spiritual] powers of ponerias above the sky! Because of this, take up the whole armor of Theos in order that you may be able to stand against [oppose] in the ponera [hurtful] day and having worked out all, to stand. 

End of Twenty-ninth Lesson