Bible verses about "whores" | Goodspeed

¹⁷ Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned. ²⁰ So you can tell them by their fruit. ²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' ²³ Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!' ²⁴ "Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock. ²⁶ And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete."

⁴³ If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out. ⁴⁴ OMITTED TEXT ⁴⁵ And if your foot makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life crippled, than be thrown with both your feet into the pit.

¹ So follow God's example, like his dear children, ² and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. ³ But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people. ⁴ There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk—all that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead. ⁵ For you may be sure that no one who is immoral, or greedy for gain (for that is idolatry) can have any share in the Kingdom of Christ and God. ⁶ Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient. ⁷ Therefore have nothing to do with them. ⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light, ⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; ¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. ¹² For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices, ¹³ yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light. ¹⁴ So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!" ¹⁵ Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men, ¹⁶ and make the most of your opportunity, for these are evil times. ¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. ¹⁸ Do not get drunk on wine, for that is profligacy, but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹ and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts; ²⁰ always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ and subordinate yourselves to one another out of reverence to Christ. ²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³ for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him. ²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. ²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, ³⁰ for we are parts of his body. ³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one. ³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

¹ Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right. ² "You must honor your father and mother"—that is the first commandment accompanied with a promise— ³ "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth." ⁴ You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction. ⁵ You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ, ⁶ not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God. ⁷ Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men, ⁸ for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct. ⁹ You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality. ¹⁰ Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength. ¹¹ You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems. ¹² For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high. ¹³ So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground. ¹⁴ Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail, ¹⁵ and on your feet put the readiness the good news of peace brings. ¹⁶ Besides all these, take faith for your shield, for with it you will be able to put out all the flaming missiles of the evil one, ¹⁷ and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God. ¹⁸ Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people ¹⁹ and for me, that when I open my lips I may be given a message, so that I may boldly make known the secret of the good news, ²⁰ for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought. ²¹ In order that you also may know how I am, our dear brother Tychicus, a faithful helper in the Lord's service, will tell you all about it. ²² That is the very reason I am sending him, to let you know how I am, and to cheer your hearts. ²³ God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith. ²⁴ God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.