Bible Dictionary: Debauchery

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

2. (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

Greek

3632. oinophlugia -- drunkenness, debauchery
... drunkenness, debauchery. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: oinophlugia
Phonetic Spelling: (oy-nof-loog-ee'-ah) Short Definition: drunkenness ...
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766. aselgeia -- licentiousness, wantonness
... Word Usage licentiousness (1), sensual (1), sensuality (8). filth,
lasciviousness, debauchery. From a compound of a (as a negative ...
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810. asotia -- unsavedness, ie wastefulness
... Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and sozo Definition unsavedness, ie
wastefulness NASB Word Usage dissipation (3). excess, debauchery. ...
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5172. truphe -- softness, daintiness, luxuriousness
... From thrupto (to break up or (figuratively) enfeeble, especially the mind and body
by indulgence); effeminacy, ie Luxury or debauchery -- delicately, riot. ...
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Library

The Gods Human at First. Who had the Authority to Make them Divine ...
... corroboration of his lust with incestuous gratification, why should he hesitate
to indulge himself lavishly in the lighter excesses of adultery and debauchery? ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/ad nationes/chapter xiii name gods human.htm

Though in Almost Every Age There have Indeed Been in the Heathen ...
... I shall not enlarge upon this ungrateful and melancholy subject: There are accounts
enough extant of the universal corruption and debauchery of the heathen ...
/.../vi proposition vi though in.htm

On Drinking.
... who expel temperance from conviviality, think excess in drinking to be the happiest
life; and their life is nothing but revel, debauchery, baths, excess ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter ii on drinking.htm

A Preservative against Unsettled Notions, and Want of Principles ...
... And, therefore, he deems an excess of debauchery as great an enemy to the lasting
enjoyment of the pleasures of life, as an extraordinary righteousness would be ...
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The Philosophers
... We must relax our minds a little; but this opens the door to the greatest
debauchery. ... When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. ...
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Byzantine Empresses Theodora ii. , Theophano, Zoe, Theodora iii.
... in the most reckless and unconscientious manner, permitting him to neglect his serious
studies, and teaching him his own vices of drunkenness and debauchery. ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/xiii byzantine empresses theodora ii.htm

India's Ills and England's Sorrows
... as warriors, but as executioners of a lawful sentence, which ought to be executed
upon men, who, by the double crime of infamous debauchery, and fearful ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/indias ills and englands sorrows.htm

Education and Preparation.
... at that time, as I should have done in case of success, the profligate acquaintances
I had there would have introduced me to scenes of debauchery, in which I ...
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Special Practices of Uniformity.
... their salvation! How many on account of physical beauty or robust health
have plunged headlong into a life of debauchery! How many ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/5 special practices of uniformity.htm

Of the Incapacity of an Unregenerate Person for Relishing the ...
... of your own temper and disposition, with whom you might spend what proportion of
time you pleased, in gaming and jollity, in riot and debauchery, without any ...
/.../practical discourses on regeneration/discourse v of the incapacity.htm

Thesaurus

Debauchery (9 Occurrences)
...Debauchery (9 Occurrences). ... Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, in which
is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, (DBY RSV NIV). ...
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Debir (12 Occurrences)

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Quarreling (17 Occurrences)
... 13:13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not
indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in ...
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Quarrelling (5 Occurrences)
... 13:13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not
indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in ...
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Noisy (14 Occurrences)
... time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in--
pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking ...
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Nero
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous
cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. Int. ...
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Unholy (23 Occurrences)
... time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in--
pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking ...
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Ourselves (129 Occurrences)
... 13:13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not
indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in ...
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Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)
... time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in--
pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking ...
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Licence (3 Occurrences)
... time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in--
pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking ...
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Bible Concordance

Debauchery (9 Occurrences)

Luke 15:13 No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
(WEY DBY)

Romans 13:13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.
(WEY RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 12:21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
(See NIV)

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
(See NIV)

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,
(DBY RSV NIV)

1 Peter 4:3 For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.
(WEY NIV)

Ezekiel 16:24 that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
(DBY)

Ezekiel 16:31 in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,
(DBY)

Ezekiel 16:39 and I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy place of debauchery, and shall break down thy high places; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Debauchery

Related Terms

Debir (12 Occurrences)

Quarreling (17 Occurrences)

Quarrelling (5 Occurrences)

Noisy (14 Occurrences)

Nero

Unholy (23 Occurrences)

Ourselves (129 Occurrences)

Licentiousness (10 Occurrences)

Licence (3 Occurrences)