Ezekiel 16:33
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33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (A)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
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Hosea 8:9-10
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9 For (A)they have gone up to Assyria,
(B)a wild donkey wandering alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Though they hire allies among the nations,
I will soon gather them up.
And (C)the king and princes (D)shall soon writhe
because of the tribute.
Isaiah 57:9
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9 You journeyed to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
(A)you sent your envoys far off,
and sent down even to Sheol.
Luke 15:30
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30 But when this son of yours came, (A)who has devoured (B)your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
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Micah 1:7
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7 All (A)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
(B)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (C)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
Joel 3:3
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3 and (A)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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Hosea 2:12
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12 And (A)I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
(B)of which she said,
‘These are (C)my wages,
which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
(D)and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
Isaiah 30:6-7
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6 An (A)oracle on (B)the beasts of (C)the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (D)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
7 Egypt's (E)help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
(F)“Rahab who sits still.”
Isaiah 30:3
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3 (A)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
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17 “None of the (A)daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none (B)of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. 18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog[a] into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 23:18 Or male prostitute
Genesis 38:16-18
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16 He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17 He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—” 18 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, (A)“Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
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