Bible verses about "whore" | Darby

¹³ If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her, ¹⁴ and charge her with things for scandalous talk, and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad, and say, This woman have I taken, and I came in unto her, and I did not find her a virgin; ¹⁵ then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel`s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate; <sup>16</sup> and the damsel`s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as wife, and he hates her; ¹⁷ and behold, he charges her with things for scandalous talk, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and here are the tokens of my daughter`s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. <sup>18</sup> And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; <sup>19</sup> and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel. And she shall remain his wife: he may not put her away all his days. <sup>20</sup> But if this thing is true, [and] virginity hath not been found with the damsel; <sup>21</sup> then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father`s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father`s house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Hear, [ye] heavens, and give ear, [thou] earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master`s crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence. ⁴ Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that corrupt themselves! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are turned away backward. ⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil. ⁷ Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city. ⁹ Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, people of Gomorrah! ¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah. I am sated with burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and in the blood of bullocks, and of lambs, and of he-goats I take no pleasure. ¹² When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand -- to tread my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations! Incense is an abomination unto me, -- new moon and sabbath, the calling of convocations -- wickedness and the solemn meeting I cannot bear. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them]. ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil, ¹⁷ learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. ¹⁹ If ye be willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land; ²⁰ but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. ²¹ How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness used to lodge in it, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is mixed with water: ²³ thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah! I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and will thoroughly purge away thy dross, and take away all thine alloy; ²⁶ and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning. Afterwards thou shalt be called, Town of righteousness, Faithful city. ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness. ²⁸ But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen. ³⁰ For ye shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. ³¹ And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench [them].

¹ They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man`s, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

⁹ But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery.

²⁷ and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

⁴ [Let] marriage [be held] every way in honour, and the bed [be] undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;

¹ And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters; ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication; ⁵ and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder. ⁷ And the angel said to me, Why hast thou wondered? *I* will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. ⁸ The beast which thou sawest was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go into destruction: and they who dwell on the earth, whose names are not written from the founding of the world in the book of life, shall wonder, seeing the beast, that it was, and is not, and shall be present. ⁹ Here is the mind that has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains, whereon the woman sits. ¹⁰ And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes he must remain [only] a little while. ¹¹ And the beast that was and is not, he also is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into destruction. ¹² And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have not yet received a kingdom, but receive authority as kings one hour with the beast. ¹³ These have one mind, and give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they [that are] with him called, and chosen, and faithful. ¹⁵ And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. ¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her with fire; ¹⁷ for God has given to their hearts to do his mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled. ¹⁸ And the woman which thou sawest is the great city, which has kingship over the kings of the earth.

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute amongst the daughters of Israel, nor any Sodomite amongst the sons of Israel.

¹ But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman; ² but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband. ³ Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife. ⁵ Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. ⁶ But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it]. ⁷ Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus. ⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I. ⁹ But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband; ¹¹ (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife. ¹² But as to the rest, *I* say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and *she* consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her. ¹³ And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases], but God has called us in peace. ¹⁶ For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife? ¹⁷ However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies. ¹⁸ Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God`s commandments. <sup>20</sup> Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called. <sup>21</sup> Hast thou been called [being] a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use [it] rather. <sup>22</sup> For the bondman that is called in [the] Lord is the Lord`s freedman; in like manner [also] the freeman being called is Christ`s bondman. <sup>23</sup> Ye have been bought with a price; do not be the bondmen of men. <sup>24</sup> Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God. <sup>25</sup> But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the] Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of [the] Lord to be faithful. <sup>26</sup> I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that [it is] good for a man to remain so as he is. <sup>27</sup> Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife. <sup>28</sup> But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you. <sup>29</sup> But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having [any]: <sup>30</sup> and they that weep, as not weeping; and they that rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they that buy, as not possessing; <sup>31</sup> and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes. <sup>32</sup> But I wish you to be without care. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; <sup>33</sup> but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. <sup>34</sup> There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. <sup>35</sup> But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what [is] seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction. <sup>36</sup> But if any one think that he behaves unseemly to his virginity, if he be beyond the flower of his age, and so it must be, let him do what he will, he does not sin: let them marry. <sup>37</sup> But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well. <sup>38</sup> So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better. <sup>39</sup> A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord. <sup>40</sup> But she is happier if she so remain, according to my judgment; but I think that *I* also have God`s Spirit.