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Committing Adultery
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
“You shall not commit adultery.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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 bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
“You shall not commit adultery.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. — read the full passage →
“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
But each one 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 told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. — read the full passage →
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.
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 evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness: they have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
“‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
“At that time,” says Yahweh, “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 my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
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