Can Pornography Be Forgiven?
1) Direct Answer
Yes. Pornography can be forgiven when it is confessed and forsaken under the Blood of Jesus Christ. But forgiveness is never a license to keep doing it—grace delivers you out of it.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin… If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us” (1 John 1:7,9). All sin includes sexual uncleanness.
- Jesus called lust adultery of the heart (Matthew 5:28). He named the sin so He could save the sinner. “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Romans 5:20).
- The Scripture shows people once bound by sexual sins can be washed: “Such were some of you: but ye are washed… sanctified… justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
- Mercy is tied to forsaking: “Whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).
- Freedom is promised: “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).
- Don’t toy with it: “Shall we continue in sin…? God forbid” (Romans 6:1-2). If your eye offends, pluck it out—cut off the occasion of sin (Matthew 5:29-30).
- Guard the eyes: “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes” (Psalm 101:3). “I made a covenant with mine eyes” (Job 31:1).
- Walk in the Spirit: “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16). “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh” (Romans 13:14).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If His Blood cleanses from all sin, then this sin is not beyond His mercy.
- But real forgiveness includes a real turn. Confess it, renounce it, and cut off its access.
- Emptied vessels must be filled. Don’t just quit the impurity; be filled with the Holy Ghost, the Word, prayer, and clean fellowship, or the old bondage will try to return.
- Hopelessness says, “You’ve gone too far.” The Bible says, “Come boldly… and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).
- Carelessness says, “Grace covers it; keep clicking.” The Bible says, “God forbid.” Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness (Titus 2:11-12).
Practical steps of repentance and freedom
- Come into the light before God now: confess it plainly to Jesus; ask for cleansing by His Blood (1 John 1:9; Psalm 51:10).
- Forsake it: remove apps, block sites, change routines—“pluck it out” obedience (Matthew 5:29-30; Romans 13:14).
- Fill up: daily Word and prayer (Psalm 119:9,11), worship, and fellowship that stirs holiness (Hebrews 10:24-25).
- Stand and resist: submit to God; resist the devil in Jesus’ Name (James 4:7).
- Ask for the infilling of the Holy Spirit and keep yielding to Him (Ephesians 5:18; Galatians 5:16).
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
You can be forgiven, cleansed, and kept. Bring it under the Blood, turn from it, and let Jesus Christ set you free indeed.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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63-0428 §52
Just like David's little rock in the sling. It went straight to its destination. So your prayers go straight to its destination, because it's offered in the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses you. There's not a sin or a spot on you nowhere. That's right, there can't be! As long as that Clorox is between me and God, how's He going to see my sin? How can He do it? If I make a sin it's not willfully. "He that sins willfully after he receives the knowledge of the truth..." But you've no willful sin; yet you do sin. B...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §37
...d ... the blood of Jesus Christ the covenant, which you were sanctified with, an unholy thing, ... hath done despite to the works of grace? How much more punishment will it be! When under the dying lamb, that a man that despised or done rejected, to the law of Moses, he had to die without mercy, because the lamb had died in his stead. How much more is the man rejected who despises the blood of Jesus Christ!
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §46
...the Gospel truth, and it's laid out to you, and God has revealed it to you, and you know it's the truth; but just to satisfy some congregation or some petty preacher, or to be popular, that you want to hold onto the things that you want to hold onto instead of taking God's Word; Paul said, "He that sins, or disbelieves willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." There is your unpardonable sin, is to know what is the truth and refuse to walk in it. Amen. No...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §11
...with all the sin problem settled forever. "For by one sacrifice," says the Scripture here, "he has perfected forever them that are sanctified." And He said, "The Holy Ghost bears record of the same," see. That one sacrifice, forever: He made His offering, giving His own life, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. And we have a High Priest sitting in the Majesty of God, in the presence of the great Creator, making intercessions upon our profession. Then said here, in the 19th verse: Having therefore, br...
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §69
You think I'm noisy? I got something to be noisy about! Let me tell you, my brother, when the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin... I've seen twenty-three years now of leading of the Holy Spirit, to yield myself to Him and not pay any attention to what the enemy says. It's put something in my heart that's anchored there that I didn't put in myself. The Holy Ghost put it there. God has got truth for me. I will walk in the light as He is in the light. I will have fellowship, one with another, while the blood...