Bible verses about "prostitute" | Rotherham

¹⁹ And, unto a woman during her removal for uncleanness, shalt thou not approach, to uncover her shame. ²⁰ And, of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge,––to commit uncleanness with her. ²¹ And, none of thy seed, shalt thou deliver up, to cause to pass through to Molech,––that thou profane not the name of thy God, I, am Yahweh. ²² And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie, as with womankind,––an abomination, it is. ²³ And, of no beast, shalt thou have carnal knowledge, to commit uncleanness therewith,––neither shall, a woman, present herself to a beast to couch down thereto,––confusion, it is.

¹⁷ There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel,––neither shall there be a male devotee, of the sons of Israel.

³² He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it; ³³ Smiting and shame, shall he find, and, his reproach, shall not be wiped out;

¹ My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear: ² That thou mayest preserve discretion,––and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it. ³ For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth; ⁴ But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two–edged sword! ⁵ Her feet, are going down to death,––on hades, will her steps take firm hold. ⁶ Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither]. ⁷ Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house: ⁹ Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel: ¹⁰ Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien. ¹¹ So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition; ¹² And thou shalt say––How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained; ¹³ Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear: ¹⁴ Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.
¹⁵ Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters: ¹⁷ Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy well–spring be blessed,––and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth:–– ¹⁹ A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore. ²⁰ Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown? ²¹ For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,––and, all his tracks, doth he consider: ²² His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized. ²³ He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.

²⁴ And it came to pass that, about three months after, it was told Judah, saying––Tamar thy daughter–in–law hath been guilty of unchastity, moreover, also lo! she hath conceived by unchastity. Then said Judah, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

¹⁷ And it shall be, that, as for the city, devoted, shall it be and all that is therein unto Yahweh,––nevertheless, Rahab the harlot, shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸ But, in any wise, do, ye, beware of what is devoted, lest ye should covet, and then take of what is devoted,––and so cause the camp of Israel to be devoted, and bring trouble upon it. ¹⁹ But, as for all silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron, hallowed, it is to Yahweh,––unto the treasury of Yahweh, shall it come. ²⁰ So the people shouted, when the horns were blown,––yea it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the horn, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down under it, and the people went up into the city every man straight before him, and so they captured the city. ²¹ And they devoted all that were in the city, both man and woman, both young and old,––and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword. ²² But, unto the two men who spied out the land, Joshua said, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot,––and bring out thence the woman and all that she hath, as ye aware unto her. ²³ So the young men the spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brethren and all that she had, yea, all her kindred, brought they out,––and set them outside the camp of Israel. ²⁴ But, the city, burned they with fire, and all that was therein,––save only, the silver and the gold and the vessels of bronze and of iron, put they into the treasury of the house of Yahweh. ²⁵ And, Rahab the harlot and the household of her father and all that she had, did Joshua save alive, so she hath dwelt in the midst of Israel until this day,––because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature,–– ²⁷ In like manner also, even the males, leaving the natural use of the female, flamed out in their eager desire one for another, males with males, the indecency, effecting,––and, the necessary recompence of their error, within themselves, duly receiving; –– ²⁸ And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming, ²⁹ Filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, baseness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil disposition, ³⁰ Whisperers, detractors, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, vain boasters, inventors of vices, unto parents unyielding, ³¹ Without discernment, regardless of covenants, without natural affection, unmerciful:–– ³² Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God,––that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising [them].

¹ Wherefore, inexcusable, thou art, O man, whoever judgest; for, wherein thou judgest some one else, thyself, thou dost condemn,––for, the very things, thou dost practise, who art judging:

¹⁹ Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are––fornication, impurity, wantonness, ²⁰ idolatry, enchantment, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of wrath, factions, divisions, parties, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings; ––and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,––that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.

⁸ But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone,––which is the second death.

²⁴ Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land,––they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature,–– ²⁷ In like manner also, even the males, leaving the natural use of the female, flamed out in their eager desire one for another, males with males, the indecency, effecting,––and, the necessary recompence of their error, within themselves, duly receiving; ––

⁷ As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age–abiding fire, undergoing.

¹⁴ A widow, or a divorced woman, or one dishonoured––an unchaste woman, these, shall he not take, But, a virgin from among his own kinsfolk, shall he take to wife;

²⁴ To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger. ²⁵ Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes; ²⁶ Because, for the sake of an impure woman, [a man may be brought] even to a cake of bread,––and, a man’s wife, for a precious soul, may hunt!

²⁷ Ye have heard, that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸ But, I, say unto you, that, Every one who looketh on a woman so as to covet her, already, hath committed adultery with her, in his heart.

⁹ Or know ye not that, wrong–doers, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves:––neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners––shall inherit, God’s kingdom. ¹¹ And, these things, were some of you; but ye bathed them away,––but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁷ There shall be no female devotee of the daughters of Israel,––neither shall there be a male devotee, of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not bring the wages of an unchaste woman, or the hire of a dog, into the house of Yahweh thy God, for any vow,––for, an abomination unto Yahweh thy God, are they both.