Bible Verses About Harlot

The king of Yericho sent a message to Rachav, "Bring out the men who came to you and are staying in your house, because they have come to reconnoiter all the land."

However, the woman, after taking the two men and hiding them, replied, "Yes, the men did come to me; but I didn't know where they had come from.

The men left around the time when they shut the gate, when it was dark. Where they went I don't know; but if you chase after them quickly, you will overtake them."

Actually she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax she had spread out there.

For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil;

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

Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;

she doesn't walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over, but she doesn't know it.

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;

so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,

"How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,

I ignored what my teachers said, I didn't listen to my instructors.

I took part in almost every kind of evil, and the whole community knew it."

Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.

Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;

but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her

a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.

My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?

She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home;

rather, she stalks the streets and squares, lurking at every streetcorner.

She grabs him, gives him a kiss, and, brazen-faced, she says to him,