Harlot (Prostitute)
13 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Hire of, not to be Received at the Temple
- Deuteronomy 23:18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Machinations of
- Proverbs 7:10 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
- Proverbs 9:14–17 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, …
- Isaiah 23:15–16 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years— the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: …
- Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
Rahab
- Joshua 2:3–6 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.” …
- Joshua 6:17 Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- Joshua 6:23 So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
- Joshua 6:25 And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
- Hebrews 11:31 By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
Shamelessness of
- Proverbs 2:16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 7:11–27 She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. …
- Proverbs 9:13–18 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. …
To be Shunned
- Proverbs 5:3–20 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, …
- Proverbs 7:25–27 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. …
Related topics
LasciviousnessAdulteryYoung MenTemptation
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.