Bible verses about "whore" | Bishops

¹³ If a man take a wyfe, and when he hath lyen with her, hate her ¹⁴ And lay shamefull thynges vnto her charge, and bryng vp an euyll name vpon her, and say, I toke this wyfe, and when I came to her I founde her not a mayde ¹⁵ Then shall the father of the damsell & the mother, bryng foorth the tokens of the damsels virginitie vnto the elders of the citie in the gate ¹⁶ And the damsels father shall say vnto the elders: I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wyfe, and he hateth her ¹⁷ And lo, he layeth shamefull thynges vnto her charge, saying, I founde not thy daughter a mayde: and yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginitie. And they shall spreade the vesture before the elders of the citie ¹⁸ And the elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise hym ¹⁹ And mearse hym in an hundred sides of syluer, and geue them vnto the father of the damsell, because he hath brought vp an euyl name vpon a mayde of Israel: And she shalbe his wyfe, and he may not put her away all his dayes ²⁰ But and yf the thyng be of a suretie that the damsell be not founde a virgin ²¹ They shall bryng the damsell to the doore of her fathers house, and the men of that citie shall stone her with stones to death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore in her fathers house: And so thou shalt put euyl from among you

¹ The vision of Esai ye sonne of Amos, which he sawe vpon Iuda and Hierusalem, in the dayes of Uzia & Ioathan, Ahaz and Iehezekiah, kinges of Iuda ² Heare O heauens, and hearken O earth: for the Lorde hath spoken, I haue norished and brought vp children, and they haue done vnfaithfully against me ³ The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his maisters cribbe: [but] Israel hath not knowen, my people hath geuen no heede ⁴ Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lorde, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone backwarde ⁵ Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? [for] ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy ⁶ From the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothyng sounde in it: [but] woundes, blaynes, and putrifiyng sore: they haue not ben salued, neither wrapped vp, neither molified with the oyntment ⁷ Your lande is wasted, your cities are burnt vp, straungers deuour your lande before your face, and it is made desolate, as it were the destruction of enemies [in the tyme of warre. ⁸ And the daughter of Sion shalbe left as a cotage in a vineyarde, lyke a lodge in a garden of Cucumbers, lyke a besieged citie ⁹ Except the Lorde of hoastes had left vs a small remnaunt, we shoulde haue ben as Sodoma, & lyke vnto Gomorra ¹⁰ Heare the worde of the Lord ye lordes of Sodoma, and hearken vnto the lawe of our God thou people of Gomorra ¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices to me, wyll the Lorde say? I am full of the burnt offeringes of weathers, & of the fatnesse of fed beastes, I haue no pleasure in the blood of bullockes, lambes, and goates ¹² When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes, who hath required this at your handes ¹³ Offer me no mo oblations, for it is but lost labour: incense is an abhominable thyng vnto me, I may not away with your newe moones, your sabbathes & solempne meetynges, your solempne assemblies are wicked ¹⁴ I hate your newe moones and appoynted feastes euen from my very heart, they make me weery, I can not abyde them ¹⁵ When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood ¹⁶ Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll ¹⁷ Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you ¹⁸ And then go to, saith the Lorde, let vs talke together: though your sinnes be as red as scarlet, they shalbe as whyte as snowe: and though they were lyke purple, they shalbe as whyte as wooll ¹⁹ If ye be wyllyng and obedient, ye shal eate the good of the lande ²⁰ But yf ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sworde: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken [it. ²¹ Howe happeneth it then that the righteous citie which was full of equitie, is become vnfaythfull as a whore? Righteousnesse dwelt in it, but nowe murtherers ²² Thy siluer is turned to drosse, and thy wine mixt with water ²³ Thy princes are wicked, and companions of theeues: they loue gyftes altogether, and gape for rewardes: As for the fatherlesse they helpe hym not to his ryght, neither wyll they let the widdowes causes come before them ²⁴ Therfore saith the Lorde God of hoastes, the mightie one of Israel: Ah I must ease me of mine enemies, and auenge me of mine aduersaries ²⁵ And I shall lay my hande vpon thee, and purely purge away thy drosse, and take away all thy tinne ²⁶ And set thy iudges agayne as they were sometyme, and thy senatours as they were from the begynnyng: and then thou shalt be called the ryghteous citie, the faythfull citie ²⁷ Sion shalbe redeemed with equitie, and her conuertes with righteousnesse ²⁸ But the transgressours, and the vngodly, and such as forsake the Lorde, shall altogether be vtterly destroyed ²⁹ For ye shalbe confounded for the trees which ye haue desired: and ye shalbe ashamed of the gardens that ye haue chosen ³⁰ For ye shalbe as a tree whose leaues are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse ³¹ And the very strong one [of your idols] shalbe as towe, and the maker of it as a sparke [of fire] and they shal both burne together, and no man quenche them

¹ Commonly when a man putteth away his wyfe, and she goeth from hym & maryeth with another, then the question is: shoulde he resort vnto her any more after that? (Is not that lande then defiled and vncleane?) But as for thee thou hast played the harlot with many louers, yet turne agayne to me, saith the Lorde

⁹ I say vnto you: whosoeuer putteth away his wyfe, except it be for fornication, and maryeth another, committeth adulterie: And who so maryeth her which is diuorced, doth comit adulterie

²⁷ And likewise also, the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one with another, and men with men wrought fylthynesse, and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour (as it was accordyng

⁴ Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge

⁷ Euen as Sodome and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in lyke maner defiled them selues with fornication, and folowed straunge fleshe, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the payne of eternall fyre

⁴ And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with golde, precious stone, and pearles, and had a cup of golde in her hande, full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication

¹ And there came one of the seue angels, which had the seuen vials, & talked with me, saying vnto me: Come, I wyll shewe vnto thee the iudgement of the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters ² With whom haue committed fornication the kynges of the earth, and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication ³ So he caryed me away in the spirite into the wildernesse: And I sawe a woman sit vpon a scarlet coloured beast, ful of names of blasphemie, which had seuen heades, and ten hornes ⁴ And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with golde, precious stone, and pearles, and had a cup of golde in her hande, full of abhominations and fylthynesse of her fornication ⁵ And in her forehead was a name written, a misterie, great Babylon, the mother of whoredome & abhominations of the earth ⁶ And I sawe ye woman dronken with the blood of the martirs of Iesus: And when I sawe her, I wondred with great maruayle ⁷ And the angell sayde vnto me: wherfore maruaylest thou? I wyll shewe thee the misterie of the woman, and of the beast that beareth her, which hath seuen heades, and ten hornes ⁸ The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pyt, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world) when they beholde the beast that was, and is not, and yet is ⁹ And here is a mynde that hath wisdome. The seuen heades, are seuen mountaynes on whiche the woman sitteth: They are also seuen kynges ¹⁰ Fyue are fallen, & one is, and another is not yet come: And whe he commeth, he must continue a short space ¹¹ And the beast that was, and is not, is euen the eyght, and is one of the seuen, and shall go into destruction ¹² And the ten hornes which thou sawest, are ten kynges, which haue receaued no kyngdome as yet: but shall receaue power as kynges at one houre with the beast ¹³ These haue one mynde, and shal geue their power & strength vnto the beast ¹⁴ These shall fyght with the lambe, and the lambe shall ouercome them: For he is Lorde of Lordes, and Kyng of Kynges, and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen, and faythfull ¹⁵ And he sayde vnto me: The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are people, and folke, & nations, and tongues ¹⁶ And the ten hornes which thou sawest vpon the beast, are they that shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eate her fleshe, and burne her with fire ¹⁷ For God hath put in their heartes to fulfyll his wyll, and to do with one consent, for to geue their kyngdome vnto the beast, vntyll the wordes of God be fulfylled ¹⁸ And the woman which thou sawest, is that great citie which raigneth ouer the kynges of the earth

¹⁷ There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor whore keper of the sonnes of Israel

¹ Nowe as concernyng the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me, it is good for a man not to touche a woman ² Neuerthelesse, to auoyde fornication, let euery man haue his owne wyfe, and let euery woman haue her owne husband ³ Let the husbande geue vnto the wyfe due beneuolence: Lykewyse also the wyfe vnto the husbande ⁴ The wyfe hath not the power of her owne body, but the husbande: And likewyse also the husbande hath not the power of his owne body, but the wife ⁵ Defraude you not the one the other, except [it be] with both your consentes for a time, that ye may geue your selues to fasting and prayer: and afterward come together againe, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinencie ⁶ This I say of fauour, & not of commaundement ⁷ For I woulde that all men were as I my selfe [am:] but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, another after that ⁸ I say therefore vnto them that be vnmaryed and wyddowes, it is good for them if they abyde euen as I ⁹ But if they can not abstayne, let them marrie: For it is better to marrie then to burne ¹⁰ Unto the maryed commaunde, not I, but the Lord, Let not the wyfe depart from the husbande ¹¹ But and if she depart, let her remayne vnmarried, or be reconciled vnto her husbande [againe:] And let not the husbande put away his wyfe ¹² But to the renmaunt speake I, not the Lorde: If any brother haue a wife that beleueth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not put her away ¹³ And the woman which hath to her husbande an infidell, and he consent to dwel with her, let her not put him away ¹⁴ For the vnbeleuing husbande is sanctified by the wyfe, and the vnbeleuyng wyfe is sanctified by the husbande: els were your children vncleane, but nowe are they holy ¹⁵ But if the vnbeleuing depart, let hym depart: A brother or a sister is not in subiection in such thinges: But God hath called vs in peace ¹⁶ For howe knowest thou O woman, whether thou shalt saue thy husbande? or how knowest thou O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wyfe ¹⁷ But as God hath distributed to euery man, as the Lorde hath called euery one, so let hym walke, and so ordeyne I in all Churches ¹⁸ Is any man called beyng circumcised? let him not adde vncircumcision: Is any called vncircumcised? let him not be circumcised ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keping of the commaundementes of God ²⁰ Let euery man abyde in the same calling, wherein he was called ²¹ Art thou called a seruaunt? care not for it: Neuerthelesse, if thou mayest be free, vse it rather ²² For he that is called in the Lord [being] a seruaunt, is the Lordes free man: Lykewyse also he that is called [beyng] free, is Christes seruaunt ²³ Ye are dearely bought, be not ye the seruauntes of men ²⁴ Brethren, let euery man wherin he is called, therin abyde with God ²⁵ Nowe concerning virgins I haue no commaundement of the Lord: yet geue I counsell, as one that hath obtayned mercy in the Lorde to be faythfull ²⁶ I suppose therfore that it is good for the present necessitie: for [I say] it is good for a man so to be ²⁷ Art thou bounde vnto a wife? seke not to be loosed: Art thou loosed from a wyfe? seke not a wyfe ²⁸ But and if thou marrie a wyfe, thou sinnest not, and if a virgin marrie, she hath not sinned: Neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in their fleshe, but I beare with you ²⁹ But this say I brethren, the tyme is short: It remayneth, that they which haue wyues, be as though they had none ³⁰ And they that wepe, as though they wept not: & they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not ³¹ And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: For the fashion of this worlde goeth away ³² I woulde haue you without care: He that is vnmaryed, careth for the thinges that belong to the Lorde, how he may please the Lorde ³³ But he that hath maryed awyfe, careth for the thinges that are of the worlde, how he may please his wyfe ³⁴ There is difference betweene a virgin and a wyfe: The vnmaryed woman careth for the thinges that are of the Lorde, that she may be holy both in body and in spirite: [Againe] she that is maryed careth for the thinges that pertayne to the world, how she may please her husbande ³⁵ This speake I for your profite, not to tangle you in a snare: but that [ye may folowe] that which is honest and comely, and that ye may cleaue fast vnto the Lorde without separation ³⁶ But if any man thinke that it is vncomely for his virgin if she passe the time of mariage, and neede so require, let him do what he wyll, he sinneth not: let them be maryed ³⁷ Neuerthelesse, he that purposeth surely in his heart hauing no neede, but hath power ouer his owne wyll, and hath so decreed in his heart that he wyl kepe his virgin, doth well ³⁸ So then he that ioyneth his virgin in maryage, doth well: but he that ioyneth not [his virgin] in mariage, doth better ³⁹ The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as long as her husbande lyueth: but if her husband be dead, she is at libertie to marry with whom she wil, onely in the Lorde ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she so abide, after my iudgement: And I thinke veryly that I haue the spirite of God