Bible Verses About Adultery: General references

But God came to Abimelech in a dreame by night, and said to him, Beholde, thou art but dead, because of the woman, which thou hast taken: for she is a mans wife.

Howbeit because by this deede thou hast caused the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the childe that is borne vnto thee shall surely die.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.

They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.

I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?

If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

Let my wife grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her:

For this is a wickednes, and iniquitie to bee condemned:

Yea, this is a fire that shall deuoure to destruction, and which shall roote out al mine increase,

And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!