Bible Verses about “punishment for adultery”
The Bible contains 20 verses about punishment for adultery across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
“¶ 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 mankind,”
“‹But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.›”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›”
“‹Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from› [her] ‹husband committeth adultery.›”
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, ‹He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.›”
“She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, ‹Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.›”
“And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.”
“Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?”
“And they which heard [it], being convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.”
“When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, ‹Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?›”
“This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard them not].”
“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,”
“They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.”
“[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.”
“¶ 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 adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
“If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.”
“‹Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.›”