“You shall not commit adultery.

“‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

“You shall not commit adultery.

The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.

When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalm 51

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.

Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

Warning Against Adultery

My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

Warning Against Adultery

My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Warning Against the Adulterous Woman

My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.

They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.

for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

“This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’

“But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

“‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

The land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land lies parched and the pastures in the wilderness are withered. The prophets follow an evil course and use their power unjustly.