Bible verses about "whore" | DouayRheims

¹³ If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her, ¹⁴ And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin: ¹⁵ Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate: ¹⁶ And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her, ¹⁷ He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city: ¹⁸ And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him, ¹⁹ Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. ²⁰ But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel: ²¹ They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

¹ The vision of Isaias the Son of Amos, which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda. ² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood. ⁴ Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards. ⁵ For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. ⁶ From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil. ⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies. ⁸ And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste. ⁹ Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. ¹¹ To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. ¹² When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? ¹³ Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. ¹⁴ My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, ¹⁷ Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow. ¹⁸ And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool. ¹⁹ If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land. ²⁰ But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. ²¹ How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers. ²² Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. ²³ Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin. ²⁶ And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city. ²⁷ Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice. ²⁸ And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed. ²⁹ For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen. ³⁰ When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water. ³¹ And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.

¹ It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

⁹ And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

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.

⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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.

⁴ And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication.

¹ And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: ² With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her whoredom. ³ And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of the abomination and filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with great admiration. ⁷ And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. ⁸ The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not. ⁹ And here is the understanding that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman sitteth: and they are seven kings. ¹⁰ Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he is come, he must remain a short time. ¹¹ And the beast which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction. ¹² And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast. ¹³ These have one design: and their strength and power they shall deliver to the beast. ¹⁴ These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and they that are with him are called and elect and faithful. ¹⁵ And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and nations and tongues. ¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest in 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 hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that they give their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God be fulfilled. ¹⁸ And the woman which thou sawest is the great city which hath kingdom over the kings of the earth.

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

¹ Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband. ⁴ The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the wife. ⁵ Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency. ⁶ But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. ⁷ For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that. ⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I. ⁹ But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt. ¹⁰ But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband. ¹¹ And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. ¹² For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away. ¹³ And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in peace. ¹⁶ For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? ¹⁷ But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach. ¹⁸ Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹ Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. ²² For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ. ²³ You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men. ²⁴ Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God. ²⁵ Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be. ²⁷ Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you. ²⁹ This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none: ³⁰ And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not: ³¹ And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away. ³² But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. ³³ But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. ³⁴ And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband. ³⁵ And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment. ³⁶ But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry. ³⁷ For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well. ³⁸ Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better. ³⁹ A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God.