Bible verses about "whores" | BBE

⁵ So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth. ⁶ Looking out from my house, and watching through the window, ⁷ I saw among the young men one without sense, ⁸ Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, ⁹ At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. ¹⁰ And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; ¹¹ She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house. ¹² Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. ¹³ So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: ¹⁴ I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. ¹⁵ So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. ¹⁶ My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; ¹⁷ I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

¹⁷ Even so, every good tree gives good fruit; but the bad tree gives evil fruit. ¹⁸ It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree which does not give good fruit is cut down and put in the fire. ²⁰ So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them. ²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. ²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? ²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil. ²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; ²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

⁴³ And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire. ⁴⁴ (OMITTED TEXT) ⁴⁵ And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.

¹ The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, ² Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother: ³ They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed. ⁴ Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah. ⁵ And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours, ⁶ Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses. ⁷ And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her. ⁸ And she has not given up her loose ways from the time when she was in Egypt; for when she was young they were her lovers, and by them her young breasts were crushed, and they let loose on her their unclean desire. ⁹ For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed. ¹⁰ By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right. ¹¹ And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister. ¹² She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired. ¹³ And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way. ¹⁴ And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red, ¹⁵ With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea. ¹⁶ And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea. ¹⁷ And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them. ¹⁸ So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister. ¹⁹ But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses. ²¹ And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians. ²² For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side; ²³ The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback. ²⁴ And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them. ²⁵ And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire. ²⁶ And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments. ²⁷ So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt. ²⁸ For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will give you up into the hands of those who are hated by you, into the hands of those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust: ²⁹ And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways. ³⁰ They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images. ³¹ You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand. ³² This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo. ³³ You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria. ³⁴ And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord. ³⁵ So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways. ³⁶ Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done. ³⁷ For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up. ³⁸ Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean. ³⁹ For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house. ⁴⁰ And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments. ⁴¹ And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil. ⁴² (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head. ⁴³ Then I said (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) now she will go on with her loose ways. ⁴⁴ And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman. ⁴⁵ And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands. ⁴⁶ For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her. ⁴⁷ And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire. ⁴⁸ And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done. ⁴⁹ And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children; ² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell. ³ But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints; ⁴ And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise. ⁵ Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him. ⁷ Have no part with such men; ⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light ⁹ Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true, ¹⁰ Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord; ¹¹ And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear; ¹² For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words. ¹³ But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light. ¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light. ¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise; ¹⁶ Making good use of the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure. ¹⁸ And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit; ¹⁹ Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord; ²⁰ Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father; ²¹ Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ. ²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. ²⁴ And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things. ²⁵ Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶ So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete. ²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself: ²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church; ³⁰ Because we are parts of his body. ³¹ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. ³² This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church. ³³ But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. ² Give honour to your father and mother which is the first rule having a reward, ³ So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth. ⁴ And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord. ⁵ Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ; ⁶ Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart; ⁷ Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men: ⁸ In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free. ⁹ And, you masters, do the same things to them, not making use of violent words: in the knowledge that their Master and yours is in heaven, and he has no respect for a man's position. ¹⁰ Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. ¹¹ Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One. ¹² For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens. ¹³ For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. ¹⁴ Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; ¹⁵ Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; ¹⁶ And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. ¹⁷ And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news, ²⁰ For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say. ²¹ But so that you may have knowledge of my business, and how I am, Tychicus, the well-loved brother and tested servant in the Lord, will give you news of all things: ²² Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, so that you may have knowledge of our position, and that he may give comfort to your hearts. ²³ Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴ Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.