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Deuteronomy 23:17

WEB

17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

KJV

17¶ There shall be no whore[+] of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

BSB

17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

FBV

17No Israelite women or men are to be cult prostitutes.

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Extra References

2 Kings 23:7

7He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the LORD’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.


Leviticus 19:29

29“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.


1 Kings 14:24

24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.


1 Kings 22:46

46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.


Deuteronomy 22:21

21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.


1 Kings 15:12

12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.


1 Timothy 1:10

10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,


1 Corinthians 6:9

9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,


Romans 1:26-28

26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 27Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. 28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;


Proverbs 2:16

16to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,