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Committing Adultery
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Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →
Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her: — read the full passage →
but Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. — read the full passage →
(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.
Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.
For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.
And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →
Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →
It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded. — read the full passage →
And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
For no word from God shall be void of power.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.
How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;
And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? — read the full passage →
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →
For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
they say unto him, Teacher, this woman hath been taken in adultery, in the very act. — read the full passage →
Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? — read the full passage →
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
And Jesus lifted up himself, and said unto her, Woman, where are they? did no man condemn thee? — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. — read the full passage →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother.
He saith unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; — read the full passage →
I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
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