Topic
Prostitution
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Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father; But he that keepeth company with harlots wasteth his substance.
And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
And the remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: — read the full passage →
And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — read the full passage →
but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.
And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. — read the full passage →
Which of the two did the will of his father? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. — read the full passage →
When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Which of the two did the will of his father? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, — read the full passage →
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
For on account of a harlota man is broughtto a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah. — read the full passage →
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: — read the full passage →
therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There hath been no prostitute here. — read the full passage →
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; — read the full passage →
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →
except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot; for she had covered her face.
And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth; — read the full passage →
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.
Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps. — read the full passage →
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. — read the full passage →
And if the people of the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death;
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →
but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. — read the full passage →
because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. — read the full passage →
What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows? — read the full passage →
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways. — read the full passage →
And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. — read the full passage →
And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →
There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.
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