lascivious, lasciviousness
Greek: aselgeia
Meaning: lewd; debauchery or living in debauchery; wantonness, licentiousness; lecherous; provoking or exciting lust; given to lust or expressing lust; filthy immorality / This word is derived from the Latin: lascivus or lascvia, meaning “lustful, lewdness, wantonness.”
This word appears six times in the King James Bible, It is only used in the New Testament.
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1 Peter 4:3 (“when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries”)
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2 Corinthians 12:21 (“have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness”)
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Ephesians 4:19 (“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness”)
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Galatians 5:19 (“the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness…”)
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Jude 1:4 (“ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness”);
ALSO SEE:
- lust
- sin
- fornication
- adultery
- drunkenness
- lying
- idolatry
- fall of man
- temptation
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