(A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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For (A)a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.[a] Accordingly, (B)she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:2 Greek law concerning the husband

For the commandments, (A)“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 word: (B)“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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(A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”

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Punishments for Sexual Immorality

10 “If a (A)man commits adultery with the wife of[a] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 20:10 Hebrew repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of

20 (A)And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.

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Lust

27 (A)“You have heard that it was said, (B)‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that (C)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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11 And he said to them, (A)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and (B)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

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They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
    (A)each neighing (B)for his neighbor's wife.
(C)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord;
    and shall I not avenge myself
    on a nation such as this?

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But (A)sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness (B)must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be (C)no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, (D)which are out of place, but instead (E)let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that (F)everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ((G)that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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(A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!

27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and (A)she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

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18 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, (A)“You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

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“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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22 (A)Because of them (B)this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, (C)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,” 23 because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, (D)they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and (E)they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. (F)I am the one who knows, (G)and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”

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18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
    let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For (A)my husband is not at home;
    he has gone on a long journey;
20 he took a bag of money with him;
    at full moon he will come home.”

21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
    with (B)her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
    as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[a]
23     till an arrow pierces its liver;
as (C)a bird rushes into a snare;
    he does not know that it will cost him his life.

24 And (D)now, O sons, listen to me,
    and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
    do not stray into her paths,
26 for many a victim has she laid low,
    and all her slain are (E)a mighty throng.
27 Her house is (F)the way to Sheol,
    going down to the chambers of death.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool

24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of (A)the adulteress.[b]
25 (B)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (C)eyelashes;
26 for (D)the price of a prostitute is only (E)a loaf of bread,[c]
    but a married woman[d] (F)hunts down a precious life.
27 Can a man carry (G)fire next to his (H)chest
    and his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can one (I)walk on hot coals
    and his feet not be scorched?
29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
    none who touches her (J)will go unpunished.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
    to (K)satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
31 but (L)if he is caught, he will pay (M)sevenfold;
    he will give all the goods of his house.
32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For (N)jealousy makes a man furious,
    and he will not spare when (O)he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation;
    he will refuse though you multiply gifts.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman
  3. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  4. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

15 men whose (A)paths are crooked,
    (B)and who are (C)devious in their ways.

16 So (D)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (E)the adulteress[b] with (F)her smooth words,
17 who forsakes (G)the companion of her youth
    and forgets (H)the covenant of her God;
18 (I)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
  3. Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim

So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ((A)Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

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