"Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

"No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

"None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

"Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered."

Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.

They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.

those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father--even God."

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,