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Being tempted is not a sin but Jesus said thinking about doing something is as bad as doing it. Mat 5:27 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: Mat 5:28 - But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed...

http://www.rodsgarden.50megs.com/arsenokoitai.htm. The most accurate definition of Arsenokoitai is a word I cannot post here. The closest I can post is “Men who have sex with men”

Which Bible translates it that way?

https://tms.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tmsj3h.pdf. Traditional interpretation of rsenokotai (arsenokoitai, "homosexuals") in 1 Cor 6:9 and 1 Tim 1:10 refers to sexual vice between people of the same sex, specifically homosexuality. Some restrict the term's meaning to "active male...

https://www.gotquestions.org/1946-homosexual-added-Bible.html

The term ‘homosexuality’ was coined in the late 19th century by an Austrian-born Hungarian psychologist, Karoly Maria Benkert. Paul didn’t have a word for it, so he used basically male who beds with male

What was the Greek word for gay in Paul’s day?

Genesis 19:1–13; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10).

If Paul wanted to indicate that someone was lazy he would have just used the word lazy, not come up with a new word

"It’s a compound word: “arsen” means man and “koite” or “koitas” or “koitai”—depending on a verb or a noun—means bed. It’s men who bed with other men." To quote you

Men who bed with other men doesn’t mean they are lazy

Just waiting to see what you can do with this verse.

Lev 18:22 - ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

https://www.crossway.org/articles/what-does-arsenokoitai-mean/. Then there is this. Lev 18:22 - ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

You may think that you know more than the scholars who translated every version of the Bible but you don’t. Your post is ridiculous.

1Co 6:9 - Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[fn] nor sodomites, Tools 1Co 6:10 - nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit...

Rom 1:26 - For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Tools Rom 1:27 - Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful...

No that’s not the reason. Those verses don’t apply to homosexuality. There are verses that do .

Staying single does not defy God.1Co 7:1 - Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 1Co 7:8 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

You are equating celibacy with homosexuality. They are not the same. Ask Paul