Exodus 20:14

The Ten Commandments

¹³ “You shall not commit murder (unjustified, deliberate homicide). ¹⁴ “You shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵ “You shall not steal [secretly, openly, fraudulently, or through carelessness].

Commit Adultery

Leviticus 18:20

You shall not have intimate relations with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

Leviticus 20:10

‘The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Deuteronomy 5:18

‘You shall not commit adultery.

2 Samuel 11:4-5

David sent messengers and took her. When she came to him, he lay with her. And when she was purified from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

2 Samuel 11:27

And when the time of mourning was past, David sent word and had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done [with Bathsheba] was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Proverbs 2:15-18

Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;

Proverbs 6:24-35

To keep you from the evil woman,
From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.

Proverbs 7:18-27

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us console and delight ourselves with love.

Jeremiah 5:8-9

“They were like well-fed, lusty stallions,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Jeremiah 29:22-23

Because of them, this curse shall be taken up and used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 5:27-28

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;

Matthew 19:18

He said to Jesus, “Which commandments?” And Jesus answered, “You shall not commit murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not give false testimony;

Mark 10:11-12

And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

Romans 7:2-3

For the married woman [as an example] is bound and remains bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released and exempt from the law concerning her husband.

Romans 13:9

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and any other commandment are summed up in this statement: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Ephesians 5:3-5

But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].

James 4:4

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowards and unbelieving and abominable [who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality], and murderers, and sorcerers [with intoxicating drugs], and idolaters and occultists [who practice and teach false religions], and all the liars [who knowingly deceive and twist truth], their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”