Bible Verses About Adultery

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.

Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”