Bible verses about "prostitute" | DouayRheims

¹⁹ Thou shalt not approach to a woman having her flowers: neither shalt thou uncover her nakedness. ²⁰ Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed. ²¹ Thou shalt not give any of thy seed to be consecrated to the idol Moloch, nor defile the name of thy God. I am the Lord. ²² Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination. ²³ Thou shalt not copulate with any beast: neither shalt thou be defiled with it. A woman shall not lie down to a beast, nor copulate with it: because it is a heinous crime.

¹⁷ There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel.

³² But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul: ³³ He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence, ² That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. ³ For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell. ⁶ They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable. ⁷ Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house. ⁹ Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel. ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house, ¹¹ And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say; ¹² Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, ¹³ And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters? ¹⁴ I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation. ¹⁵ Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well: ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. ¹⁷ Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. ²⁰ Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another? ²¹ The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps. ²² His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins. ²³ He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

²⁴ And behold, after three months, they told Juda, saying: Thamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath played the harlot, and she appeareth to have a big belly. And Juda said: Bring her out that she may be burnt.

¹⁷ And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸ But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled. ¹⁹ But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels of brass and iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures. ²⁰ So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city, ²¹ And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The oxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the sword. ²² But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go into the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all things that are hers, as you assured her by oath. ²³ And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and made them to stay without the camp. ²⁴ But they burned the city, and all things that were therein; except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated unto the treasury of the Lord. ²⁵ But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, ²¹ Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

²⁶ For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. ²⁷ And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. ²⁸ And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient. ²⁹ Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, ³⁰ Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. ³² Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

¹ Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.

⁸ But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

²⁴ There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

²⁶ For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. ²⁷ And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

¹⁴ But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

²⁴ That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger. ²⁵ Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks: ²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

²⁷ You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. ²⁸ But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: ¹⁰ Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.

¹⁷ There shall be no whore among the daughters of Israel, nor whoremonger among the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.