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an.3.113 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Bound for Loss

“Mendicants, three kinds of people are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.
What three?
Someone who is unchaste, but claims to be celibate;
someone who makes a groundless accusation of unchastity against a person whose celibacy is pure;
and someone who has the view, ‘There is nothing wrong with sensual pleasures,’ so they throw themselves into sensual pleasures.
These are the three kinds of people bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.”