Bible Verses about โcommitting adulteryโ
The Bible contains 29 verses about committing adultery across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.โ
โBut, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โ(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.โ
โOr 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,โ
โFlee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.โ
โbut I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.โ
โBut 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."โ
โbut 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.โ
โI 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."โ
โFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,โ
โEveryone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.โ
โ"You shall not commit adultery.โ
โ"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'โ
โBut when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."โ
โIf a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."โ
โHe said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.โ
โShe said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."โ
โAgain he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.โ
โNow in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"โ
โThey, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.โ
โJesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"โ
โThey said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.โ
โThe scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,โ
โthey told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.โ
โNow very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.โ
โHe who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.โ
โbut Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.โ
โ"'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.โ
