Adultery
Sexual unfaithfulness within marriage, forbidden by the seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14). David's adultery with Bathsheba brought devastating consequences (2 Samuel 11-12). Proverbs 6:32 states, 'A man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.' Jesus expanded the commandment to include lustful looks (Matthew 5:27-28) and declared that divorce and remarriage can constitute adultery (Matthew 19:9). Yet Jesus showed grace to the woman caught in adultery: 'Neither do I condemn you... Go now and leave your life of sin' (John 8:11). The prophets used adultery as a metaphor for Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness to God (Hosea 1-3, Ezekiel 16).
Verses about Adultery
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Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adult…
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Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
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Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treache…
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Jeremiah 3:9
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then commi…
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Jeremiah 7:9
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
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Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Je…
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Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers,…
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Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, whic…
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Ezekiel 16:32
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
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Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, w…
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Ezekiel 23:43
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
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Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her a…
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Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: …
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Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and…
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Matthew 5:27
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
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Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.