Scripture teaches that faithfulness in marriage is a sacred trust, with the book of Hebrews emphasizing the importance of honoring marriage and keeping the marriage bed pure. The prophet Isaiah warns of the destructive consequences of infidelity, noting how it can lead to sudden and unexpected disaster, as seen in Isaiah 47:10 and 47:11. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus expands the definition of infidelity to include not just physical acts, but also the intentions of the heart, as expressed in Matthew 5:28. Jesus also teaches that divorce and remarriage can be a form of infidelity, as seen in Matthew 5:31-32, highlighting the seriousness with which God views faithfulness in relationships.
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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.
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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.
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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.
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’ ? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.