{"id":8726,"date":"2007-02-20T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:51:33","slug":"what-does-lasciviousness-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-does-lasciviousness-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does lasciviousness mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>What does lasciviousness mean? And does it speak clearly in the Bible about homosexuality?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Lasciviousness, licentiousness, lewdness, or sensuality, depending on the translation of your Bible, means being wanton, lewd, or lustful. William Barclay described it as &#8220;a love of sin so reckless and so audacious that a man has ceased to care what God or man thinks of his actions.&#8221; Others, using the word &#8220;licentiousness,&#8221; note that it comes from the word &#8220;license.&#8221; Thus, licentiousness is the attitude that a person gets after repeatedly sinning that he has a license to sin; that is, a right to sin.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to homosexuality, see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-homosexuality\/\">Notes on Homosexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What does lasciviousness mean? And does it speak clearly in the Bible about homosexuality? Answer: Lasciviousness, licentiousness, lewdness, or sensuality, depending on the translation of your Bible, means being wanton, lewd, or lustful. William Barclay described it as &#8220;a love of sin so reckless and so audacious that a man has ceased to care&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[205,596,76],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-lewdness","tag-sensuality","tag-terminology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88309,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/dancing-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":8726,"position":0},"title":"Dancing (Pickford)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Michael Pickford There is considerable confusion and even some debate over the idea of dancing. Some believe dancing is a sin simply because it is dancing. However, the Bible does not condemn dancing in itself. It never says, \"Thou shalt not dance.\" To the contrary, the Bible says that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31291,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-is-sensuality\/","url_meta":{"origin":8726,"position":1},"title":"What is sensuality?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I'm trying to find all the information I can on sensuality, but am coming up short on it, I get that it's the gratification of the flesh's desires but how does one repent of that, I'm not in any sexual immorality, I don't eat too much, what else\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26173,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-being-gay-a-sin-or-is-the-act-of-having-relations-with-the-same-sex-a-sin\/","url_meta":{"origin":8726,"position":2},"title":"Is being gay a sin, or is the act of having relations with the same sex a sin?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I'm going to be blunt with my question seeing that there is no way to sugar coat it: Is being gay a sin or is the act of having relations with the same sex a sin? 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