When Jesus says that divorce is permitted for porneia, he means for sexual immorality. (Matt 19:9) Jesus says in Revelation 22:13-15 that the pornoi, the sexually immoral, will not be in heaven. In both cases, his hearers would have understood him to have been using a term broad enough to include homosexuality. And that even overlooks the possibility that the "dogs" of Revelation 22:15 are those who practice homosexuality (as Today's English Version assumes in translating kunes [dogs] as "perverts").

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