Scripture consistently condemns adultery as a grave sin, with Exodus 20:14 including it in the Ten Commandments. The book of Hebrews honors marriage as a sacred institution, stating that it should be held in honor by all. Jesus teaches in Matthew 19:9 that divorce and remarriage can sometimes constitute adultery, highlighting the seriousness with which God views faithfulness in marriage. Additionally, passages like Leviticus 20:10 and Proverbs 6:32 warn of the severe consequences and destructive nature of adultery, emphasizing the importance of fidelity and moral integrity.
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Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery. ”
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.