Bible Verses About Adultery

or like a bird rushing into a trap, not knowing its life is at stake till an arrow pierces its liver.

The foolish woman is coarse; she doesn't think, and she doesn't know a thing.

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

calling to those who pass by, to those going straight along their ways,

"Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!"To someone weak-willed she says,

"Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is pleasant."

But he doesn't realize that the dead are there, and that those who accept her invitation are in the depths of Sh'ol.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; the man with whom ADONAI is angry falls into it.

A prostitute is a deep ditch, and a forbidden woman like a narrow well.

She lies in wait to snatch her prey and adds to the number of faithless men.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a patron of prostitutes wastes his wealth.

Three things are too wonderful for me, four beyond my knowledge

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

This is how an unfaithful wife behaves: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, "I did nothing wrong."

Don't give your strength to women or your ways to that which destroys kings.

"But you, you witches' children, come here, you spawn of adulterers and whores!

Whom are you making fun of? At whom are you laughing and sticking out your tongue? Aren't you rebellious children, just a brood of liars?

[ADONAI] says: "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and marries another man, then if the first one marries her again, that land will be completely defiled. But you prostituted yourself to many lovers, yet you want to return to me?" says ADONAI.

"Why should I forgive you? Your people have abandoned me and sworn by non-gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery, thronging to the brothels.

They have become like well-fed horses, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba'al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, 'We are saved' - so that you can go on doing these abominations!

For the land is full of adulterers; because of a curse the land is in mourning - the desert pastures have dried up. Their course is evil, their power misused.

In fact, all those exiled from Y'hudah who are in Bavel will take up this formula for cursing: "May ADONAI make you like Tzidkiyahu and Ach'av, whom the king of Bavel roasted in the fire!"

because they have done vile things in Isra'el, committing adultery with their neighbors' wives and speaking words in my name, falsely, which I did not order them to say. For I am he who knows; I am witness to this,' says ADONAI.