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Bible Verses About Adultery: General references

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  1. Galatians 5:19

    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

  2. Romans 13:9

    For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  3. Matthew 5:28

    But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  4. 2 Peter 2:14

    Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

  5. Matthew 19:9

    And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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  1. Proverbs 5:13–22

    13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

    14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

    16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

    17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

    18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

    19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

    20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

    22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  2. Proverbs 6:24–29

    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

    27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

    28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

    29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

  3. Proverbs 6:32–33

    32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

    33A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

  4. Proverbs 7:5–11

    5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

    6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

    7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

    8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

    10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

    11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: