¹⁶ Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ^(A)“the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.”

^24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and ^(B)be^[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

^31 (A)“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the ^(B)two shall become one flesh.”

⁸ and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁵ and said, ^(A)‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and ^(B)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father?”

They said to Him, “The first.”

Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. ³² For ^(B)John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; ^(C)but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward ^[a]relent and believe him.

³¹ By faith ^(A)the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who ^[a]did not believe, when ^(B)she had received the spies with peace.

Samson and Delilah

16 Now Samson went to ^(A)Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

²⁴ And it came to pass, about three months after, that Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has ^(A)played the harlot; furthermore she is ^[a]with child by harlotry.”

So Judah said, “Bring her out ^(B)and let her be burned!”