Bible Verses About Adultery

Don't let your heart lust after her beauty or allow her glance to captivate you.

The price of a whore is a loaf of bread, but the adulteress is hunting for a precious life.

Can a man carry fire inside his shirt without burning his clothes?

Can a man walk [barefoot] on hot coals without scorching his feet?

So is he who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will be punished.

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

He will get nothing but blows and contempt, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

so that they can keep you from unknown women, from loose women with their seductive talk.

For I was at the window of my house, glancing out through the lattice,

when I saw among the young men there, among those who don't think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense.

He crosses the street near her corner and continues on toward her house.

Dusk turns into evening, and finally night, dark and black.

Then a woman approaches him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.

She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home;

rather, she stalks the streets and squares, lurking at every streetcorner.

She grabs him, gives him a kiss, and, brazen-faced, she says to him,

"I had to offer peace sacrifices, and I fulfilled my vows today.

This is why I came out to meet you, to look for you; now I've found you.

I've spread quilts on my couch made of colored Egyptian linen.

I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Come on, let's make love till morning; we'll enjoy making love.

My husband isn't at home, he's gone on a long trip;

he took a bag of money with him and won't be back till the moon is full."

With all her sweet talk she convinces him, enticing him with her seductive words.

At once he follows her like an ox on its way to be slaughtered; like a fool to be punished in the stocks;