Bible verses about "whores" | Thomson

⁵ that she may keep thee from a strange and wicked woman, in case she, with alluring words should attack thee. ⁶ For through a lattice she looketh out of her house into the streets; ⁷ and if among the simple youths she chanceth to see a young man, void of understanding, ⁸ walking near a corner in the passages to her house, ⁹ and talking in the twilight, when the evening is still and duskish: ¹⁰ then this woman, who maketh the hearts of young men flutter, meeteth him, in the attire of a harlot. ¹¹ Indeed she is ever on the wing and insatiable, and her feet abide not at home. ¹² For sometimes she roveth abroad: and sometimes lieth in wait in the streets, at every corner. ¹³ Ha! she hath caught him and kissed him, and with an unblushing countenance, said to him: ¹⁴ "I have a peace offering; today I am paying my vows: ¹⁵ for this reason I came out to meet thee: earnestly longing to see thee. ¹⁶ I have found thee. With cords I have stretched my bed, and decked it with tapestry from Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with saffron, and my house with cinnamon: ¹⁸ come, and let us take our fill of love till the morning: come and let us solace ourselves with love.

¹⁷ So every good tree beareth good fruit; and every bad tree beareth bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; nor a bad tree, good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree which beareth not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ So then by their fruits you will know them. ²¹ Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who doeth the will of my father who is in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that day Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many miracles, ²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore whoever heareth these words of mine and putteth them in practice, him I will compare to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock. ²⁶ But whoever heareth these words of mine, and doth not put them in practice, may be compared to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. ²⁷ When the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; it fell, and great was the ruin thereof.

⁴³ Therefore, if thy hand cause thee to fall, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter maimed into life, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire which is unextinguishable; ⁴⁴ "Where their worm dieth not; and the fire is not extinguished! ⁴⁵ And if thy foot cause thee to fall, cut it off, it b better for thee to enter lame into life, than, having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire which is unextinguishable;

¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, ³ who in their youth had committed whoredom in Egypt. There they were first deflowered. ⁴ And these were their names; the eldest was called Oola and her sister, Ooliba. And when they became mine and had borne me sons and daughters, These were their names; Oola was called Samaria, and Ooliba, Jerusalem. ⁵ And Oola wantonly left me and attached herself to her lovers; to the Assyrians her neighbours, ⁶ whose generals and leaders were clothed in blue. And the chosen youth were all horsemen, mounted on horses. ⁷ But though she indulged her wantonness with them, who were all the principal men of the Assyrians, and with all them to whom she attached herself; and defiled herself with all their idols; ⁸ yet she did not forsake her fornication with Egypt because they had lain with her in her youth and first deflowered her. ⁹ Wherefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians to whom she had attached herself. ¹⁰ These exposed her shame. They took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword, and she became a common talk for women, and by her they gave warning to their daughters. ¹¹ Though her sister Ooliba saw this, yet she became abandoned and more inordinate in her fornication than her sister. ¹² To the sons of the Assyrians she attached herself; to the rulers and generals near her who were arrayed in sumptuous apparel, who were horsemen mounted on horses. They were all chosen youths. ¹³ When I saw that they were polluted; and that both took the same course; ¹⁴ and that this one was adding to her fornication; for upon seeing men portrayed on the wall, the pictures of the Chaldeans drawn to the life with a pencil, ¹⁵ having their loins girded with embroidered girdles, and deep dyed turbans on their heads; the majestic countenance of all resembling that of the Chaldees of the land of her nativity; ¹⁶ she became attached to them by the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them to the land of Chaldea. ¹⁷ And the sons of Babylon came to her, lay with her, and polluted her in whoredom. And when she was polluted by them, though her mind was alienated from them, ¹⁸ still she discovered her whoredom and exposed her shame. So my mind became alienated from her as it had been from her sister. ¹⁹ As thou hast multiplied thy whoredom, to call into remembrance the days of thy youth, in which thou didst play the harlot in Egypt, ²⁰ and though connected with the Chaldeans, men of beastly lust, ²¹ hast looked back to the transgressions of thy youth; to what thou didst in the stew of Egypt where thou wast first deflowered. ²² Therefore Ooliba, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up against thee thy lovers from whom thy mind is alienated; and I will bring them against thee on every side; ²³ the children of Babylon, even all the Chaldeans, Phakuk and Soue and Uchoue and all the Assyrians with them, chosen youths, leaders and generals, all men of high rank and renown, mounted on horses. ²⁴ And they shall come against thee from the north with chariots and wheeled carriages, and a multitude of peoples with bucklers and shields. And when a guard is set on thee round about, I will give judgment before them and they shall punish thee by their judgments. ²⁵ And I will give a loose to my jealousy; and they shall deal with thee with furious wrath, they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears; and the remains of thee they shall hack with a sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and a fire shall devour the residue of thee. ²⁶ And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take those jewels which are thy boast. ²⁷ And I will remove thine impieties which spring from thyself, and thy fornication which sprang from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt never lift up thine eyes to them, nor shalt thou any more remember Egypt. ²⁸ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, and from whom thy mind is withdrawn; ²⁹ and they shall deal spitefully with thee, and take all those things for which thou hast laboured and toiled: and thou shalt be naked and in disgrace and the shame of thy whoredom shall be made public. ³⁰ Thine impiety and thy whoredom have brought these things on thee. By thy going a whoring after the nations, thou hast polluted thyself with their inordinate lusts. ³¹ Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore I will put her cup into thy hands. ³² Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt drink the cup of thy sister, which is deep, and which is large, and which is foaming over, to cause complete intoxication, ³³ that thou mayst be filled with fainting; even that cup of astonishment, the cup of thy sister Samaria. ³⁴ Let her take this: and I will turn away her festivals and her new moons; for I the Lord have spoken, saith the Lord. ³⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast forgotten and cast me behind thee, take thou the effects of thine impiety and of thy whoredom. ³⁶ Again the Lord said to me, Son of man, wilt thou not arraign Oola and Ooliba, and announce to them their iniquities? ³⁷ That they have committed adultery and there is blood on their hands? They have committed adultery with their idols; and caused their children whom they bore to me to pass through fire for them. ³⁸ And when they had done this to me, they polluted my holy things and profaned my sabbaths; ³⁹ for when they had slaughtered their children to their idols, they went into my sanctuary to profane it. Now because they have acted thus in my house; ⁴⁰ and because, for the men who came from afar, to whom messengers had been despatched, thou didst immediately on their coming, anoint thyself with oil and paint thine eyes with stibium, and ⁴¹ adorn thyself with sumptuous attire, and sit on a covered sopha with a table set before it; and they were regaled with mine ⁴² incense and mine oil, and joined in the harmonious song, even with men of the common herd who had come from the wilderness; [though they had put bracelets on their hands and a ⁴³ crown of exquisite beauty on their heads; I said, surely they do not commit adultery with these! But she acted the harlot ⁴⁴ and they went in unto her: in the same manner as they go in to a common woman, so did they go in unto Oola and to Ooliba to commit iniquity ⁴⁵ therefore these are righteous men and they will punish them with the punishment of an adulteress and with the punishment for blood. Because they are adulteresses and there is blood on their hands, ⁴⁶ thus saith the Lord, Lord, Bring up a multitude against them and expose them to tumult and rapine; ⁴⁷ and stone them with the stones of tumultuous crowds; and stab them with their swords. Let their sons and their daughters be slain and their houses burned with fire, ⁴⁸ that I may remove impiety out of the land and that all women may take warning, and not commit the impieties which these have done. ⁴⁹ Thus shall your impiety be recompensed on you; and for your sins you shall receive retribution; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹ be ye therefore imitators of God as beloved children. ² And walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, as an3 offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. ³ And let not fornication, nor uncleanness of any sort, nor inordinate desire, be so much as named among you, as becometh saints; ⁴ nor obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor jesting about things which are unbecoming; but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this you know that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lewd libertine, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience, ⁷ be not ye8 therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For you were formerly darkness, but being now a light in the Lord, walk as children of light ⁹ [for the fruit of this light consists of goodness and righteousness and truth of every sort] ¹⁰ proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them: ¹² for as to the things done by them in secret, it is shameful even to mention them. ¹³ But all these reprehensible things are exposed to view by the light. For it is light which exposeth every thing to view; ¹⁴ therefore it is said, "Awake thou who sleepest and arise from the dead and the Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Take heed therefore how circumspectly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time. Because these are evil days, ¹⁷ therefore be not without understanding, but intelligent with regard to what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And be not intoxicated with wine in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit ¹⁹ when: you are speaking to one another, when with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs you are singing and making melody with your hearts to the Lord: ²⁰ and give thanks on all occasions for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father. ²¹ Be subject to one another in the fear of God. ²² Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; ²³ because the husband is the head of the wife, even as the Christ is the head of the congregation. He indeed is the saviour of the body; ²⁴ but as the congregation is subject to the Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as the Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself up for it, ²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed ²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ In the same manner husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loveth his wife, loveth himself. ²⁹ Now no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the congregation, ³⁰ because we are members of his body; of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Instead of this, "a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two will be one flesh," ³² this is the great mystery, I mean in regard to Christ and the congregation. ³³ However with regard to you individually, let every one love his wife as himself, and let the wife reverence her husband.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother [this is the first commandment with a promise] ³ that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long on the earth. ⁴ And you, parents, exasperate not your children, but educate them with the discipline and admonition of the Lord. ⁵ Servants, obey them who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts, as you do the Christ ⁶ not with eye-service as men pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, ⁷ performing service with good will, as to the Lord and not to men; ⁸ knowing that whatever good any one doth, the Lord will reward him for it, whether he be a bondman or freeman. ⁹ And you, masters, observe the same conduct towards them, abating your threats, knowing that you yourselves have a master in heaven, and that with him there is no respect of persons. ¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the complete armour of God, that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil. ¹² Because our conflict is not barely with flesh and blood, but against the principalities and the powers; against the rulers of this dark age, against the spiritual [assaults] of the wickedness in the heavenly dispensation; ¹³ take up therefore the complete armour of God, that you may be able to make resistance in the evil day, and having put a stop to them all, to maintain your ground. ¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girded with truth, and having on the breast plate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and your feet shod with the preparation of the glad tidings of peace, ¹⁶ covering all with the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take also the helmet of salvation, and the sword o" the spirit, that is the word of God; ¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints ¹⁹ particularly for me, that to me a word may be given, that with the opening of my mouth, and with freedom am plainness of speech, I may make known the secret of the glad tidings, ²⁰ for which I am performing the office of an ambassador in a chain, that in this situation I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. ²¹ Now that you may know the state of my affairs, and what I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will give you a particular account, ²² as I have sent him for this very purpose, that you may know the state of our affairs, and that he may comfort your hearts. ²³ Peace to the brethren and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ²⁴ this favour be with all them who love our Lord Jesus Christ without any mixture of Corruption. Amen.