Bible Verses about โpunishment for adulteryโ
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.
โLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.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
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
โTo him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.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
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
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
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
โHe who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.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
โIf a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.โ
โBehold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.โ
