Bible Verses About Adultery: General references

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.

The eye of the adulterer observeth darkness, saying: No eye shall see me: and he will cover his face.

He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.

I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:

Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.

It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.

For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.

Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,

And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;

Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,