Bible Verses About Adultery
OT NT Scripture Quotes
Do not commit adultery. (Exodus20:14)
When I came to you to do justice I shall demand the immediate punishment of the sorcerers and the adulterers, of those who swear false oaths, who oppress the wage-earner, the widow and the orphan, who do not respect the rights of the foreigner. They do all this and have no fear of me, says Yahweh. (Malachi3:5)
How senseless is the adulterer! Whoever commits adultery destroys himself. (Proverbs6:32)
You have heard that it was said: Do not commit adultery. But I tell you this: anyone who looks at a woman to satisfy his lust has in fact already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew5:27-28)
Indeed, it is from the heart that evil desires come - murder, adultery, immorality, theft, lies, slander. (Matthew15:19)
and he told them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against his wife, and the woman who divorces her husband and marries another also commits adultery." (Mark10:11-12)
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries a woman divorced by her husband also commits adultery. (Luke16:18)
You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not accuse falsely, honor your father and your mother. (Luke18:20)
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Make no mistake about it: those who lead immoral lives, or worship idols, or who are adulterers, homosexuals of any kind, or thieves, exploiters, drunkards, gossips or embezzlers will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. (1Corinthians6:9-10)
Food is for the stomach, as the stomach is for food, and God will destroy them both. Yet the body is not for sex, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. And God who raised the Lord, will also raise us with his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? And you would make that part of his body become a part of a prostitute? Never! (1Corinthians6:13-15)
Avoid unlawful sex entirely. Any other sin a person commits is outside the body but those who commit sexual immorality sin against their own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, given by God? You belong no longer to yourselves. (1Corinthians6:18-19)
Let us not fall into sexual immorality as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell dead. (1Corinthians10:8)
Therefore I say to you: walk according to the Spirit and do not give way to the desires of the flesh! For the desires of the flesh war against the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are opposed to the flesh. Both are in conflict with each other, so that you cannot do everything you would like. (Galatians5:16-17)
And since you are holy, there must not be among you even a hint of sexual immorality or greed, or any kind of impurity: these should not be named among you. (Ephesians5:3)
the will of God for you is to become holy and not to have unlawful sex. Let each of you behave towards his wife as a holy and respectful husband, rather than being led by lust, as are pagans who do not know God. (1Thessalonians4:3-5)
Marriage must be respected by all and husband and wife faithful to each other. God will punish the immoral and the adulterous. (Hebrews13:4)
You adulterers! Don't you know that making friends with the world makes you enemies of God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy. (James4:4)
Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities who prostituted themselves and were lured into unnatural unions are also a warning of the punishment of eternal fire. (Jude1:7)
I have given her time to repent but she is unwilling to leave her prostitution. So I am going to throw her onto a bed and inflict severe trials on her partners in adultery unless they repent of their evil. (Revelation2:21-22)
