Definition of "fornications" [fornications]

• Plural form of fornication. (noun)

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• "In Mt. 15: 19, "fornications" is replaced with "sexually immoral thoughts and acts"."
• ""fornications" refer us back to the prevailing religion of that time, as we have seen in xiv. 4, 5, above; and this is the cause of her judgment."
• ""fornications," marks irregular lusts, as contrasted with the unity of the marriage relation [Bengel]. let every man have -- a positive command to all who have not the gift of continency, in fact to the great majority of the world (1Co 7: 5)."