Update: I wish to clarify that I believe it is necessary to distinguish between the authority of Christ's words and for example Paul's words. Also, on the matter of what is pharmakeia and pharmakoi, I wish to update that there is good evidence that Christ and Paul can have meant, alongside sorcery, also physical poisoning. Please see for example my article "Catastrophic Subtle Sabotage: The Case of Mistranslating Jesus's Words".
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"Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery,*** enmity, strife, rivalry, rages, selfish schemes, divisions, heresies, envy, drunkenness, revelries, and the things like these, of which I say beforehand to you, just as I said before, that they practicing the things like these will not inherit God's kingdom."—Galatians 5:19-21
"...anyone a fornicator or unclean or covetous (that is an idolater) has not inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God."—Ephesians 5:5
"But to the cowardly and unfaithful and them being loathsome and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers*** and idolaters and all the deceitful is the part of theirs in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the death—the second one."—Revelation 21:8
"Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers*** and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone loving and practicing falsehood."—Revelation 22:15
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* Possibly "effeminate [males]"
** Possibly "men having sex with men"
*** Possibly φάρμακεία (phármakeia) and φάρμακοι (phármakoi) also refer to using spiritually destructive substances
Scripture quoted from The Christ Family Bible. Copyright © 2018 by J.J. Thomas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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