Bible Verses About Adultery: General references

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!

They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!