| Who was involved |
Sin involved |
Effects/Consequences
of the sin (direct or related) |
| Ham & Noah (Genesis
9:20-27) |
Voyeurism (looking at
naked body) |
Ham's son Canaan and his
descendants are cursed (future Canaanites) |
| Angels taking human
wives (Genesis
6:1-12, Jude
6-7, 2
Peter 2:4) |
- Indulged in gross sexual immorality with "strange flesh"
- Abandoned proper place of power and dwelling to pursue sin
|
- Every inclination of man's heart became evil
- Earth was corrupt and full of violence
- God determined to destroy humanity by a flood
|
| Sodom & Gomorrah (Jude
6-7, Genesis
18:16-33, Genesis 19:1-29, Ezekiel
16:48-50) |
- Sexual immorality with "strange flesh"
- Homosexuality
- Pride
- Gluttony
- Idleness
- Neglect of poor & needy
|
Both cities and the surrounding territory were
destroyed by God |
Lot & his daughters
(Genesis
19:30-38) |
- Incest
- Doubt: Daughters did not have faith that God would provide for them
|
The descendants (Ammonites and Moabites) became
hated enemies of God's people |
| Abraham, Sarah &
Hagar (Genesis
16:1-16, Genesis 21:8-21) |
- Adultery
- Lacked faith to wait on God's promised son
|
- Ishmael's descendants became one of the hated enemies of God's
people (Ishmaelites)
- Strife, resentment, jealousy and abuse between Sarah & Hagar
- Abraham was greatly distressed
|
| Judah & Tamar (Genesis
38) |
- Incest
- Deception
- Prostitution
- Manipulation/Control
- Hypocrisy
|
- Tamar was almost executed
- Judah's sin was exposed
- Since Judah repented (vs.26), some consequences may have been
averted
- Twin sons born out of wedlock
|
| Rueben and his father's concubine (Genesis
35:22; Genesis 49:3-4; 1 Chronicles 5:1) |
- Incest
- Defiled his father's marriage bed
|
- Rueben lost his birth right
- Rueben and his descendants were cursed by Jacob
|
| Joseph
& Potiphar's wife (Genesis
39:6-13) |
- Lust
- Lying
- Slander
- False accusation
|
- Though innocent, Joseph loses trusted position in his master's house
and is imprisoned based on false accusations
- Potiphar lost God's blessing associated with Joseph (Gen.39:5)
|
| Israelites
w/Moabite & Midianite women (Numbers
25:1-10) |
- Seduction
- Harlotry/Prostitution
- Adultery
- Idolatry
|
- Israel was joined to the demon "Baal of Peor" through
sexual worship
- God's anger was aroused and a plague ensued, killing 24,000
- The guilty were executed
- Israel retaliates against Midian for their seduction (Numbers
31)
|
| Samson (Judges
14-16) |
- Lust
- Pride
- Broken vows
- Manipulation/control
- Anger
- Taking revenge
- Lying
- Witchcraft (vexing)
|
- Strife: Samson involved in several skirmishes with the Philistines
- Deceived by both his wives and eventually captured
- God's Spirit left Samson
- Samson's eyes gouged out by his captors
- Samson repented in captivity and God granted Samson's death wish to strike
the Philistines
|
| The
Levite, the harlot
concubine and the Benjamite mob (Judges
19) |
- Prostitution
- Adultery
- Homosexuality
- Lust
- Fornication
- Rape
- Murder
|
- The concubine died after being raped
- Israel declared war on the Benjamites; thousands died (> 90,000)
|
| David & Bathsheba (2
Samuel 11-12) |
- Lust/Coveting
- Murder
- Manipulation
- Conspiracy
- Lying
- Covering sin
|
- David's son dies
- David brought reproach on God's name - The Lord's enemies had great
occasion to blaspheme
- Strife: The sword would never depart from David's house
- Rebellion: God raised up David's son Absalom to rebel against David
and lay with David's wives in public
- God spared David's life because he repented
|
| Amnon and Tamar (2
Samuel 13) |
- Lust/Coveting
- Conspiracy
- Fornication
- Hatred
- Lying
- Rape
- Incest
|
- Because of the cultural prejudice against unmarried non-virgins at
the time, Tamar's marriage prospects were greatly damaged, if not
destroyed. She lived "desolate"
in her brother Absalom's house.
- Absalom, murders Amnon in revenge
- Absalom's anger & rebellion was increased against his
father, David, for failing to discipline Amnon
|
Absalom & his father's wives
(2
Samuel 16:21-22, 2 Samuel 18:6-15) |
- Adultery
- Rebellion
- Dishonoring parents
- Incest
- Pride
|
- Spiritual confusion; Absalom followed evil counsel
- Absalom was caught by his hair in a tree and killed by Joab
|
| Solomon & wives
(1
Kings 11) |
- Love of pleasure
- Sexual idolatry
- Idolatry
|
- Spiritual confusion
- Strife: God raised up several adversaries against Solomon
because of his disobedience
- God tore the kingdom away from Solomon's descendants and gave it to
someone else
|
| The
seductress and her victim (Proverbs
6:24-26 NIV) |
- Deceit
- Promiscuity/Adultery
- Lust
- Seduction with eyes
|
- The victim's life was snared and preyed upon
- The victim reaped judgment, husband's wrath, soul destruction, wounds, dishonor, reproach, no mercy
|
| Jerusalem's spiritual harlotry (Ezekiel
16 - metaphorical) |
- Spiritual adultery
- Pride: trusted in own beauty instead of God
- Brazen harlotry
- Sexual idolatry
- Child sacrifice
- Idolatry
- Uncovered nakedness
|
- God turned against Jerusalem, diminished their territory and gave them
up to the will of their enemies
- God uncovered her nakedness to all her enemies
- God brought judgment on her in fury & jealousy
- Her former lovers left her naked & bare
- God raised up people to burn her houses and execute many judgments
on her
|
| Oholah (Ezekiel
23:1-10, 36-49 - metaphorical for the northern kingdom of
Samaria) |
- Spiritual adultery
- Lust
- Idolatry
- Fornication
- Harlotry (continuous)/prostitution
- Rebellion
- Adultery
- Child sacrifice
- Defiled God's sanctuary
- Profaned the Sabbath
|
- God delivered her into the hands of her enemies, the Assyrians; the
Assyrians plundered Samaria, taking some people captive and killing
others.
- The Assyrians executed God's judgment on Samaria
- God gave her up to trouble and plunder
- She and her sons and daughters would be killed, and their houses
would be burned.
|
| Oholibah
(Ezekiel 23:1-4,
11-49 - metaphorical for the southern kingdom of Judah)
|
- Fornication
- Lust: after pictures of Chaldeans (Ezek.23:14-15)
- Lust: after memories of
youth sex sin (Ezek. 23:19-20)
- Sexual Idolatry
- Harlotry (more so than Samaria)/prostitution
- Pride
- Rebellion
- Adultery
- Child sacrifice
- Defiled God's sanctuary
- Profaned the Sabbaths
|
- Oholibah was defiled by her Chaldean lovers and she alienated
herself from her lovers
- God alienated himself from Oholibah
- God stirred up her former lovers against her on every side
- God delegated his judgment to Oholibah's lovers to carry out on her
- they dealt furiously and cruelly with her so that she would not
continue in her sin
- God set his jealousy against her
- She was filled with drunkenness and sorrow (from God's wrath)
- She was held in derision and scorn
- God gave her up to trouble and plunder
- She and her sons and daughters would be killed, and their houses
would be burned.
|
| The Romans (Romans
1:20-32) |
- Pride
- Idolatry
- Lust
- Sexual immorality
- Homosexuality
- Covetousness
- Maliciousness
- Envy
- Murder
- Strife
- Deceit
- Evil-mindedness
- Unforgiveness
- Rebellion
- Gossip/slander
|
- Became futile in their thoughts
- Their hearts were darkened
- They became fools
- God gave them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts, to
dishonor their bodies among themselves
- God gave them up to their vile passions (homosexuality)
- They burned in lust for one another and committed shameful acts
- They received due penalty for their acts (AIDS?)
- God gave them over to a depraved mind
- They were filled with evil
|
| The
sexually immoral brother and the Corinthian church
(1
Corinthians 5:1-13) |
- Incest
- Pride
- Tolerating sinful practice in the church
|
Paul instructed the church to:
- Not keep company with the unrepentant brother
- Deliver the brother to Satan in hopes that he would repent (5)
|
| The Jezebel spirit and the church (Revelation 2:19-25) |
- Sexual immorality
- Idolatry
- False teaching
- Spiritual adultery
- Unrepentance
- Studying Satan's "deep secrets" (occult)
|
- Jezebel and those who sin with her will suffer intensely on a
"bed of suffering" (unless they repent of Jezebel's ways)
- God will repay each person according to his deeds
|