31 Bible Verses about Harlots

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Leviticus 19:29

Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to commit fornication: and the land commit fornication and the land was filled with wickedness.

Proverbs 7:25

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;

Jeremiah 3:6-9

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there. And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.read more.
And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods.

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18

Thou shalt not be a harlot from the daughters of Israel, and a male prostitute from the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Isaiah 57:3

And ye, come ye near here, sons of her practicing magic, seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:6

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there.

Jeremiah 5:7

How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot

Hosea 2:5

For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.

Hosea 4:12

My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.

Ezekiel 23:5

And Aholah will commit fornication under me; and she will desire after those loving her, after Assur, they being near.

Amos 8:14

They swearing by the trespass of Shomeron, and they said, Thy God lives, O Dan, and the way of the well of the oath lives, and they fell, and they shall rise no more.

Micah 1:7

And all her carved images shall be beaten down, and all her gifts shall be burnt in fire, and all her images I will set a desolation: for she gathered from the gift of a harlot, and they shall turn back even to the gift of a harlot

Revelation 17:5-7

And upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman intoxicated from the blood of the holy, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus: and wondered, seeing her, with great wonder. And the angel said to me, Why didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the wild beast lifting her up, having seven heads and ten horns.

Jeremiah 3:3

And the showers will be withheld, and the latter rain was not; and the forehead of a woman a harlot was to thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Proverbs 9:14-18

And sitting at the door of her house, upon the throne of the heights of the city, To call to those passing the way, making straight their paths: Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,read more.
Stolen waters will be sweet, and the bread of secrets shall be pleasant And he knew not that there the shades; her called ones in the depths of hades

Proverbs 7:12

One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.

Amos 2:7

Panting for the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor, and they will turn away the way of the humble: and a man and his father will go to the same young girl to profane my holy name:

Exodus 34:15-16

Lest thou shalt make a covenant to those dwelling in the land and they committed fornication after their gods, and sacrificed to their gods, and call to thee, and thou didst eat from his sacrifice; And thou didst take from his daughters to thy sons, and they committed fornication after their gods, and they made thy sons commit fornication after their gods.

Proverbs 5:3-20

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil: And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades.read more.
Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know. And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of my mouth. Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house: Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel: Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers; And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness, And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me. As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly. Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well. Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters. They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee. Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth. The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves. And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Leviticus 21:9

And the daughter of a man a priest, if she shall be profaned to commit fornication, it is profaning her father: she shall be burnt in fire.

Genesis 38:13-20

And it will be announced to Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law going up to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she will remove the garments of her widowhood from her, and she will be covered with a veil, and will veil herself and will sit in the entrance of the eyes, which is upon the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was great, and she was not given to him for a wife. And Judah will see her, and will think her a harlot, because she covered her face.read more.
And he will turn to her by the way, and will say, Now I will come in to thee; for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law: and she will say, What wilt thou give to me that thou wilt come in to me? And he will say, I will send a kid of the goats from the flock: and she will say, If thou wilt give a pledge till thy sending. And he will say, What the pledge which I shall give to thee? And she will say, Thy seal, and thy cord, and thy rod which is in thy hand: and he will give to her, and will go in to her, and she will conceive by him. And she will arise and go, and will put away her veil from her, and will put on the garments of her widowhood And Judah will send the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to take the pledge from the hand of the woman; and he found her not

Joshua 2:1-21

And Joshua son of Nun will send out of Shittim two men spying silently, saying, Go see the land and Jericho. And they will go, and will come to the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name Rahab; and they will lie there. And it will be said to the king of Jericho, Behold, men came here this night from the sons of Israel to search out the land. And the king of Jericho will send to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men having come to thee, which came to thy house: for to search out the land they came.read more.
And the woman will take the two men and hide them, and will say thus, Two men came to me, and I knew not from whence they were. And it will be for the shutting the gate in darkness, and the men went forth, and I knew not whither the men went; pursue quickly after them, for ye shall overtake them. And she brought them up to the roof, and she will hide them in woody flax arranged by her upon the roof. And the men pursued after them the way of Jordan at the passages: and they shut the gate afterwards as they pursuing after them went forth. And before they will lie down; and she went up to them upon the roof; And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face. For we heard that Jehovah dried up the water of the sea of sedge from before you, in your coming out of Egpyt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites that were upon the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye destroyed them. And hearing, our heart will melt and there rose up no more spirit in a man on account of your face: For Jehovah your God, he the God in the heavens from above and upon the earth beneath. And now, swear now to me by Jehovah, as I did with you mercy, and do ye also mercy with the house of my father, and give to me a true sign. And preserve alive my father and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all which is to them, and take away our souls from death. And the men will say to her, Our soul instead of yours to die if ye shall not announce this our word. And it being in Jehovah's giving to us the land, and we did with thee mercy and truth. And she will let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the wall side and she will dwell upon the wall. And she will say to them, Go to the mountain, lest they pursuing shall meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days till they pursuing turn back: and afterward ye shall go to your way. And the men will say to her, We are free from this thine oath which thou caused us to swear. Behold, we come into the land, thou shalt bind the line of this scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by it: and thy father and thy mother and thy brethren, and all thy father's house thou shalt gather to thee to the house. And it was all which went forth out of the doors of thy house without, his blood upon his head and we are free, and all which shall be with thee in the house, his blood upon our head if a hand shall be upon him. And if thou shalt announce this our word, and we were free from thine oath which thou didst cause us to swear. And she will say, According to your words so be it. And she will send them away and they will go: and she will bind the scarlet cord in the window.

Judges 11:1

and Jephthah the Gileadite was a man of strength, and he the son of a woman, a harlot And Gilead will beget Jephthah.

Judges 16:1

And Samson will go to Gaza, and he will see there a woman, a harlot, and he will go in to her.

Isaiah 23:15-17

And it was in that day, and Tyre was forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: from the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as the song of a harlot. Take a harp, go about the city, O harlot having been forgotten; be cheerful, playing on the instrument; increase the song so that thou shalt be remembered. And it was from the end of seventy years, Jehovah will review Tyre, and she turned back to her gift, and she committed fornication with all the kingdoms of the land upon the face of the earth.

Isaiah 1:21

How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing

Isaiah 57:7-9

Upon a mountain high and lifted up thou didst set thy bed: also there thou wentest up to sacrifice a sacrifice. Behind the doors and the door-post thou didst set thy memorial: for from me thou didst migrate, and thou wilt go up; thou didst make broad thy bed, and thou wilt cut out to thee from them; thou didst love their bed; thou didst look upon the hand. And thou wilt pour out for the king with oil and thou wilt increase thy perfumes, and thou wilt send thy messengers even from far off, and thou wilt be made low, even to hades.

From Thematic Bible


Harlots » Warnings against

Proverbs 7:10

And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:

Proverbs 6:24

To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

Harlots » General references to

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

Leviticus 19:29

Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to commit fornication: and the land commit fornication and the land was filled with wickedness.

Genesis 34:31

And they will say, Shall he do to our sister as an harlot?

1 Kings 3:16

Then will come two women, harlots, to the king, and they will stand before him.

Women » Harlots » Warnings against

Proverbs 7:10

And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:

Proverbs 6:24

To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.

Women » Harlots » General references to

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Leviticus 21:14

A widow, and the driven away, and profane, and an harlot, those he shall not take: but a virgin of his people shall he take a wife.

Leviticus 19:29

Thou shalt not profane thy daughter to commit fornication: and the land commit fornication and the land was filled with wickedness.

Genesis 34:31

And they will say, Shall he do to our sister as an harlot?

1 Kings 3:16

Then will come two women, harlots, to the king, and they will stand before him.

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