Bible Verses About Adultery: General references

But God came to Avimelekh in a dream one night and said to him, "You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, since she is someone's wife."

However, because by this act you have so greatly blasphemed ADONAI, the child born to you must die."

The eye of the adulterer too waits for twilight; he thinks, 'No eye will see me'; but [to be sure], he covers his face.

When it's dark, they break into houses; in the daytime, they stay out of sight. [None of them] know the light.

For to all of them deep darkness is like morning, for the terrors of deep darkness are familiar to them.

"May they be scum on the surface of the water, may their share of land be cursed, may no one turn on the way of their vineyards,

"I made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust after any girl.

"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

then let my wife grind for another man, and let others kneel on her.

For that would be a heinous act, a criminal offense,

a fire that would burn to the depths of Abaddon, uprooting all I produce.

They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,

who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.

None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.

For the lips of a woman who is a stranger drop honey, her mouth is smoother than oil;

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

Her feet go down to death, her steps lead straight to Sh'ol;

she doesn't walk the level path of life -her course wanders all over, but she doesn't know it.

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;

so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

Then, when your flesh and bones have shrunk, at the end of your life, you would moan,

"How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,