Bible verses about "prostitute" | NSB

¹⁹ »‘Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period. ²⁰ »‘Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her. ²¹ »‘Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your God. I am Jehovah! ²² »‘Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting. ²³ »‘Do not have sexual intercourse with any animal and become unclean with it. A woman must never offer herself to an animal for sexual intercourse. It is unnatural.

¹⁷ »None of the daughters of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself. ³³ He will get wounds and be dishonored. His shame will not be wiped away.

¹ My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Listen to my understanding. ² That way you will maintain discretion and your lips will keep knowledge. ³ The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave. ⁶ She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know. ⁷ Hear me now my son. Do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house. ⁹ You will give your honor (majesty) to others and your years to the cruel one. ¹⁰ Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work. ¹¹ You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed. ¹² You say: »How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof. ¹³ »I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors! ¹⁴ »I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.« ¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well. ¹⁶ Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places? ¹⁷ Let them be yours alone. Do not share with strangers. ¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love. ²⁰ Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths. ²² His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins. ²³ He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.

²⁴ Three months later Judah was told: »Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.« Judah said: »Bring her out and have her burned to death!«

¹⁷ »The city and everything in it will be destroyed. It belongs to Jehovah. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house will live. Because she hid the messengers we sent. ¹⁸ »You people must stay away from anything devoted to destruction. You should not take things from the city. You will cause trouble for the camp of Israel is you take of the accursed things. ¹⁹ »All the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to Jehovah. They must come into the treasury of Jehovah.« ²⁰ So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, the wall fell down flat. The people went into the city, every man straight ahead. They captured the city. ²¹ They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. ²² Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the country: »Go into the harlot’s house, and bring the woman out as you swore to her.« ²³ The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, mother, and her brothers and all that she had. They brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. ²⁴ They burned the city and all its contents. They put the silver, gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of the house of Jehovah. ²⁵ Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had. She dwells in Israel even to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. ²⁷ Also the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust, one toward another; men with men working that which is obscene. They receive full recompense due for their error. ²⁸ They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting. ²⁹ They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful. ³² They know the judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death! And yet, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who do them.

¹ You who judge have no excuse. For when you judge another you condemn yourself. After all you do the same things.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, ²¹ envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁸ »But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.«

²⁴ There were also male (cult) prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land. The people of Judah practiced all the disgusting practices done by the nations that Jehovah forced out of the Israelites' way.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. ²⁷ Also the men left the natural use of the woman and burned in their lust, one toward another; men with men working that which is obscene. They receive full recompense due for their error.

⁷ Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them are an example for they, in like manner with these surrendered to fornication and went after flesh for unnatural use. They received justice by ever burning fire.

¹⁴ »He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

²⁴ This will keep you from the evil woman and from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman. ²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart. Do not let her attract you with her eyelids. ²⁶ A prostitute will cost you your last crust of bread. An adulteress will cost you your life.

²⁷ »You have heard it was said, ‘You should not commit adultery.’ ²⁸ »However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁷ »None of the daughters of the sons of Israel shall be a temple prostitute. ¹⁸ »Do not bring the hire (fee) of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of Jehovah your God for any vow offering. Both of these are an abomination to Jehovah your God.