Bible Verses About Prostitution
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Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Scripture Passages
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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