Deuteronomy 23:17

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Deuteronomy 23:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

16 Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

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.

19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

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Deuteronomy 22:21

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

Leviticus 19:29

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Genesis 19:4

Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.

Genesis 19:5

They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”

1 Kings 14:24

There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:12

He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46

He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

2 Kings 23:7

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

Romans 1:27

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching