Deuteronomy 23:17

No Israelite, male or female, is to become a cult prostitute. Sexual immorality tied to pagan worship is utterly forbidden.

Cross-references · 13

• 2 Kgs 23:7He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
• 1 Kgs 14:24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
• Lev 19:29“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
• 1 Kgs 22:46The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
• Deut 22:21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
• 1 Kgs 15:12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• Rom 1:26–28For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Prov 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
• Judg 19:22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”
• Gen 19:4–5But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
• Deut 22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

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