Proverbs 2:16

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

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

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

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

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

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

then 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.

When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”

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

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

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

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

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

“ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Or 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,

There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

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

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.