fornication

religious views on fornication

She knew that fornication was a mortal sin.

And the woman was full of the filthiness of her fornication!

" I am Septa Unella. I am come to hear you tell of all your murders and fornications" .

" I'm not interested in your views on the social and moral values of promiscuous fornication" .

" That will not be allowed. You are to be tried before a holy court of seven, for murder, treason, and fornication" .

You've got murder to your credit, and husband stealing, attempted fornication, lying and sharp dealing and any amount of chicanery that won't bear close inspection.

And does not a soul, sighing after such idle fictions, commit fornication against thee, trust in false things, and " feed on the winds" ?

Thus the soul commits fornication when she is turned from thee, and seeks apart from thee what she cannot find pure and untainted until she returns to thee.

I was tossed to and fro, and wasted, and poured out, and I boiled over in my fornications--and yet thou didst hold thy peace, O my tardy Joy!

So this indulgent little dining-piece places its owner firmly in the echelons of high society, in that very world that St Paul was so eloquently condemning for its drunkenness and its fornication.