Bible verses about "whores" | ACV

⁵ that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words. ⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice, ⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding ⁸ passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house, ⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day. ¹⁵ Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.

¹⁷ Likewise every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces bad fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ So then from their fruits ye will know them. ²¹ Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens. ²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? ²³ And then I will profess to them, I never acknowledged you. Depart from me, ye who work lawlessness. ²⁴ Therefore every man, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.

⁴³ And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, ⁴⁴ where their worm does not perish, and the fire is not quenched. ⁴⁵ And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off. It is good for thee to enter into life crippled, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the unquenchable fire

¹ The word of LORD came again to me, saying, ² Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. ³ And they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth. There their breasts were pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity. ⁴ And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. ⁵ And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, ⁶ who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. ⁷ And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. And on whomever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. ⁸ Neither has she left her whoredoms since Egypt. For in her youth they lie with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity, and they poured out their whoredom upon her. ⁹ Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. ¹⁰ These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, for they executed judgments upon her. ¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister. ¹² She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. ¹³ And I saw that she was defiled. They both took one way. ¹⁴ And she increased her whoredoms, for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, ¹⁵ girded with belts upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them rulers to look upon, according to the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. ¹⁶ And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. ¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love. And they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. ¹⁸ So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just as my soul was alienated from her sister. ¹⁹ Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. ²¹ Thus thou called to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth. ²² Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, rulers and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses. ²⁴ And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about. And I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. ²⁵ And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury. They shall take away thy nose and thine ears, and thy residue shall fall by the sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. ²⁶ They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. ²⁷ Thus I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom from the land of Egypt, so that thou shall not lift up thine eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more. ²⁸ For thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of those whom thou hate, into the hand of those from whom thy soul is alienated. ²⁹ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare. And the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. ³⁰ These things shall be done to thee, because thou have played the harlot after the nations, and because thou are polluted with their idols. ³¹ Thou have walked in the way of thy sister, therefore I will give her cup into thy hand. ³² Thus says the lord LORD: Thou shall drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large. Thou shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision. It contains much. ³³ Thou shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. ³⁴ Thou shall even drink it and drain it out. And thou shall gnaw the shards of it, and shall tear thy breasts, for I have spoken it, says the lord LORD. ³⁵ Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Because thou have forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore thou also bear thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. ³⁶ LORD said moreover to me, Son of man, will thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. And with their idols they have committed adultery. And they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire for them to be devoured. ³⁸ Moreover they have done this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. ³⁹ For when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it, and, lo, thus they have done in the midst of my house. ⁴⁰ And furthermore ye have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And, lo, they came, for whom thou washed thyself, painted thine eyes, and decked thyself with ornaments, ⁴¹ and sat upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou did set my incense and my oil. ⁴² And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. And with men of the common sort, were brought drunkards from the wilderness, and they put bracelets upon the hands of those two women, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. ⁴³ Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, Now they will play the harlot with her, and she with them. ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as they go in to a harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ For thus says the lord LORD: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. ⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness. ⁴⁹ And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols. And ye shall know that I am the lord LORD.

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. ² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma. ³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified, ⁴ also indecency, and foolish talking or jesting, things not befitting, but thankfulness instead. ⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Do not become ye therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light ⁹ (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), ¹⁰ proving what is acceptable to the Lord. ¹¹ And do not associate with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even rebuke them. ¹² For it is disgusting even to speak of the things happening by them secretly. ¹³ But all things exposed are revealed by the light, for everything that is seen is light. ¹⁴ Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee. ¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how ye walk, not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. ¹⁸ And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and striking strings in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ expressing thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father, ²¹ submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of Christ. ²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. ²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church, ³⁰ because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh. ³² This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church. ³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise, ³ so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth. ⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord. ⁵ Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ. ⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ bond-serving with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men. ⁸ Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman. ⁹ And ye masters, do the same things to them, easing up the threats, knowing also that the master of you yourselves is in the heavens, and there is no partiality from him. ¹⁰ Finally my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² Because our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal offices, against the positions of authority, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual things of wickedness in the heavenly things. ¹³ Because of this take ye up the full armor of God, so that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand ye therefore having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet in preparation of the good news of peace. ¹⁶ Above all having taken up the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of evil. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified, ¹⁹ and for me, so that utterance may be given to me in boldness in opening my mouth to make known the mystery of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. ²¹ But that ye also may know the things concerning me, what I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful helper in the Lord, will make known all things to you. ²² Whom I sent to you for this same thing, so that ye might know the things about us, and that he might encourage your hearts. ²³ Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ The grace is with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptibility. Truly.