Bible Verses About Lasciviousness: General references

And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.

Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.