Deuteronomy 23:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.”
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“No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 23:17 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:4Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
- Leviticus 19:29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
- Deuteronomy 22:21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:29then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- Judges 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- 1 Kings 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
- 2 Kings 23:7He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
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