Biblical Concept: Harlot

Findings:

“play the harlot with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods”

“their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot”

Leviticus 19:29 'Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land may not fall to

harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness.

“playing the harlot after Molech”

Harlot judgement relationship.

“not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot”

Israel: “play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.”

stone her to death … playing the harlot in her father's house.

Deuteronomy 23:18 "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the

LORD your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

“this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land”

Judges 2:17 And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and

bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had

walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.

“they played the harlot after other gods”

“Israel again played the harlot with the Baals”

“played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land”

Jehoram: “caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot”

“Jerusalem to play the harlot”

Israel: “played the harlot in their deeds.”

“on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread”

“Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.”

“a harlot is a deep pit”

Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once

lodged in her, But now murderers.

“the faithful city has become a harlot”

Tyre: “play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.”

"And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.”

Ezekiel 6:9 "Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be

carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by

their eyes, which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight

for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

Israel: “play the harlot after their detestable things”

“you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols”

“a spirit of harlotry has led them astray”

“they have played the harlot, departing from their God”

“For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes”

“you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself”

“Traded a boy for a harlot”

“one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her”

“He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality”

Tyre: “play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.”

“Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.”

Polytheism: Spiritual harlotry.

Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.

No peace with harlots.

“you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing”

Idolatry, child sacrifice, judgement.

Beyond harlotry.

“so that the land may not fall to harlotry”

“the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD”

Hosea 4:11-12 ¹¹Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. ¹² My people consult their

wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And

they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Hosea 5:4 Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them,

And they do not know the LORD.

“he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth”

Parodical Son: “who has devoured your wealth with harlots.”

"BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

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Harlot

^NAS Genesis 34:31 But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?"

¹⁵ When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face.

²⁴ Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry." Then Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"

^NAS Exodus 34:15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they play the harlot with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invite you to eat of his sacrifice; (“play the harlot with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods”)

¹⁶ and you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods, and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

^NAS Leviticus 17:7 "And they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations."' (“their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot”)

^NAS Leviticus 19:29 'Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land may not fall to harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. (All)

^NAS Leviticus 20:5 then I Myself will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech. (“playing the harlot after Molech”)

⁶ 'As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people. (Harlot judgement relationship.)

^NAS Numbers 15:39 "And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, (“not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot”)

^NAS Numbers 25:1 While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. (Israel: “play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.”)

^NAS Deuteronomy 22:21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel, by playing the harlot in her father's house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you. (“stone her to death” … playing the harlot in her father's house.)

^NAS Deuteronomy 23:18 "You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God. (All)

^NAS Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. (“this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land”)

^NAS Joshua 2:1 Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.

^NAS Joshua 6:17 "And the city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

²⁵ However, Rahab the harlot and her father's household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

^NAS Judges 2:17 And yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers. (All) (“they played the harlot after other gods”)

^NAS Judges 8:27 And Gideon made it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

³³ Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god. (“Israel again played the harlot with the Baals”)

^NAS Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. And Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

^NAS Judges 16:1 Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

^NAS Judges 19:2 But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months.

^NAS 1 Chronicles 5:25 But they acted treacherously against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. (“played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land”)

^NAS 2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray. (Jehoram: “caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot”)

¹³ but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you, (“Jerusalem to play the harlot”)

^NAS Psalm 106:39 Thus they became unclean in their practices, And played the harlot in their deeds. (Israel: “played the harlot in their deeds.”)

^NAS Proverbs 6:26 For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life. (“on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread”)

^NAS Proverbs 7:10 And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. (“Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.”)

^NAS Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep pit, And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. (“a harlot is a deep pit”)

^NAS Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has become a harlot, She who was full of justice! Righteousness once lodged in her, But now murderers. (All) (“the faithful city has become a harlot”)

^NAS Isaiah 23:15 Now it will come about in that day that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

¹⁶ Take your harp, walk about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, That you may be remembered.

^NAS Isaiah 23:17 And it will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. (Tyre: “play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.”)

^NAS Jeremiah 2:20 "For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your bonds; But you said, 'I will not serve!' For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down as a harlot.

^NAS Jeremiah 3:1 God says, "If a husband divorces his wife, And she goes from him, And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlot with many lovers; Yet you turn to Me," declares the LORD.

⁶ Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

⁸ "And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also. (All)

^NAS Ezekiel 6:9 "Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes, which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. (All) (Contrast: Jews: God’s Evangelical Tool.) Contrast: Other god / gods.)

^NAS Ezekiel 16:15 "But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

¹⁶ "And you took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors, and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen.

¹⁷ "You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

²⁶ "You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

²⁸ "Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you even played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

³⁰ "How languishing is your heart," declares the Lord God, "while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.

³¹ "When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

³⁴ "Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different."

³⁵ Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.

⁴¹ "And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I shall stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

^NAS Ezekiel 20:30 "Therefore, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and play the harlot after their detestable things? (Israel: “play the harlot after their detestable things”)

^NAS Ezekiel 23:3 and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled.

⁵ "And Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,

¹⁹ "Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

³⁰ 'These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols. (“you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols”)

⁴⁴ "But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.

^NAS Hosea 2:5 "For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

^NAS Hosea 3:3 Then I said to her, "You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you."

^NAS Hosea 4:10 And they will eat, but not have enough; They will play the harlot, but not increase, Because they have stopped giving heed to the LORD.

¹² My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God. (“a spirit of harlotry has led them astray”) (“they have played the harlot, departing from their God”)

¹³ They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under oak, poplar, and terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, And your brides commit adultery.

¹⁴ I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot Or your brides when they commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined. (“For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes”)

¹⁵ Though you, Israel, play the harlot, Do not let Judah become guilty; Also do not go to Gilgal, Or go up to Beth-aven, And take the oath: "As the LORD lives!"

¹⁸ Their liquor gone, They play the harlot continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.

^NAS Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me; For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself. (“you have played the harlot, Israel has defiled itself”)

^NAS Hosea 9:1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on every threshing floor. (“you have played the harlot, forsaking your God”)

^NAS Joel 3:3 "They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine that they may drink. (“Traded a boy for a harlot”)

^NAS Amos 7:17 "Therefore, thus says the LORD, 'Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"

^NAS Micah 1:7 All of her idols will be smashed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire, And all of her images I will make desolate, For she collected them from a harlot's earnings, And to the earnings of a harlot they will return.

^NAS Nahum 3:4 All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.

^NAS 1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be!

¹⁶ Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says, "The two will become one flesh." (“one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her”)

^NAS Hebrews 11:31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace.

^NAS James 2:25 And in the same way was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

^NAS Revelation 17:1 And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I shall show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,

¹⁵ And he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

¹⁶ "And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.

^NAS Revelation 19:2 because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her." (“He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality”)

Harlot’s

^NAS Joshua 6:22 And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her."

^NAS Isaiah 23:17 And it will come about at the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot's wages, and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. (Tyre: “play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.”)

¹⁸ And her gain and her harlot's wages will be set apart to the LORD; it will not be stored up or hoarded, but her gain will become sufficient food and choice attire for those who dwell in the presence of the LORD.

^NAS Jeremiah 3:3 "Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed. (“Yet you had a harlot's forehead; You refused to be ashamed.”)

^NAS Jeremiah 5:7 "Why should I pardon you? Your sons have forsaken Me And sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, They committed adultery And trooped to the harlot's house. (Polytheism: Spiritual harlotry.)

^NAS Micah 1:7 All of her idols will be smashed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire, And all of her images I will make desolate, For she collected them from a harlot's earnings, And to the earnings of a harlot they will return. (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

Harlotries

^NAS 2 Kings 9:22 And it came about, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" And he answered, "What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" (No peace with harlots.)

^NAS Ezekiel 16:15 "But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing. (“you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing”)

²⁰ "Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me, and you sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? (Idolatry, child sacrifice, judgement.)

²² "And besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

³³ "Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries. (Beyond harlotry.)

³⁴ "Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different." (Beyond harlotry.)

³⁶ Thus says the Lord God, "Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols, (Idolatry, child sacrifice, judgement.)

^NAS Ezekiel 23:7 "And she bestowed her harlotries on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself. (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

⁸ "And she did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

¹¹ "Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

¹⁴ "So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

¹⁸ "And she uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister.

¹⁹ "Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

²⁹ 'And they will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

³⁵ "Therefore, thus says the Lord God, 'Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.'" (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry. See vv. 36-39.)

^NAS Nahum 3:4 All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries. (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

Harlotry

^NAS Genesis 38:24 Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry." Then Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"

^NAS Leviticus 19:29 'Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land may not fall to harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. (“so that the land may not fall to harlotry”)

^NAS Leviticus 21:7 'They shall not take a woman who is profaned by harlotry, nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.

⁹ 'Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.

¹⁴ 'A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people;

^NAS Jeremiah 3:2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see; Where have you not been violated? By the roads you have sat for them Like an Arab in the desert, And you have polluted a land With your harlotry and with your wickedness.

⁹ "And it came about because of the lightness of her harlotry, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

^NAS Ezekiel 16:25 "You built yourself a high place at the top of every street, and made your beauty abominable; and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

²⁶ "You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

²⁹ "You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."'"

^NAS Ezekiel 23:17 "And the Babylonians came to her to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

²⁷ 'Thus I shall make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.'

^NAS Ezekiel 43:7 And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

⁹ "Now let them put away their harlotry and the corpses of their kings far from Me; and I will dwell among them forever.

^NAS Hosea 1:2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry, and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD." (“the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD”)

^NAS Hosea 2:2 "Contend with your mother, contend, For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; And let her put away her harlotry from her face, And her adultery from between her breasts,

⁴ "Also, I will have no compassion on her children, Because they are children of harlotry.

^NAS Hosea 4:11 Harlotry, wine, and new wine take away the understanding. (All)

¹² My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner's wand informs them; For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, And they have played the harlot, departing from their God. (All) (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

^NAS Hosea 5:4 Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them, And they do not know the LORD. (All)

^NAS Hosea 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

Harlots

^NAS 1 Kings 3:16 Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

^NAS 1 Kings 22:38 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the LORD which He spoke.

^NAS Proverbs 29:3 A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad, But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth. (“he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth”)

^NAS Ezekiel 16:33 "Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries.

^NAS Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot Or your brides when they commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined. (Idolatry: Spiritual harlotry.)

^NAS Matthew 21:31 "Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The latter." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax-gatherers and harlots will get into the kingdom of God before you.

³² "For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax-gatherers and harlots did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

^NAS Luke 15:30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with harlots, you killed the fattened calf for him.' (Parodical Son: “who has devoured your wealth with harlots.”)

^NAS Revelation 17:5 and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." ("BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”)

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