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14 “You shall not commit adultery.(A)

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Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.(A)

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18 “ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.

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Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.(A) Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man, she is not an adulteress.(B)

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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 word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(A)

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But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21.8 Or the unbelieving
  2. 21.8 Or prostitutes

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

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  1. 20.10 Heb repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of

20 You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.(A)

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Concerning Adultery

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

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

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They were well-fed lusty stallions,
    each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(A)
Shall I not punish them for these things?
            says the Lord,
    and shall I not bring retribution
    on a nation such as this?(B)

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Renounce Pagan Ways

But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.(A) Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(B)

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Adulterers![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.4 Gk Adulterous women; other ancient authorities read Adulterous men and women

27 When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.

Nathan Condemns David

But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,(A)

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

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Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.(A)

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22 And on account of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”(A) 23 because they have perpetrated outrage in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them; I am the one who knows and bears witness, says the Lord.(B)

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

21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
    with her smooth talk she compels him.(A)
22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]
23     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.(B)

24 And now, my children, listen to me,
    and be attentive to the words of my mouth.(C)
25 Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways;
    do not stray into her paths.(D)
26 For many are those she has laid low,
    and numerous are her victims.(E)
27 Her house is the way to Sheol,
    going down to the chambers of death.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(B)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[c]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(C)
27 Can fire be carried in the bosom
    without burning one’s clothes?
28 Or can one walk on hot coals
    without scorching the feet?
29 So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
    no one who touches her will go unpunished.(D)
30 Thieves are not despised who steal only
    to satisfy their appetite when they are hungry.
31 Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
    they will forfeit all the goods of their house.(E)
32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.(F)
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
    and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
    and he will show no restraint when he takes revenge.(G)
35 He will accept no compensation
    and will refuse a bribe no matter how great.

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Footnotes

  1. 6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. 6.24 Heb alien woman
  3. 6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

15 those whose paths are crooked
    and who are devious in their ways.(A)

16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(B)
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant,
18 for her way[c] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman
  3. 2.18 Cn: Heb house

So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house.(A) The woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”(B)

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