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Bible Verses About Adultery

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  1. and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

  2. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

  3. Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”

  4. “No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

  5. Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

  6. You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

  7. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  8. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

  9. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

  10. So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

  11. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

  12. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

  13. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

  14. And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

  15. Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.

  16. When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

  17. hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

  18. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

  19. Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

  20. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

  21. I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  22. I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

  23. But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

  24. What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

  25. God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”