Leviticus 18:20
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20 You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.(A)
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Leviticus 20:10
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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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Exodus 20:14
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14 “You shall not commit adultery.(A)
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Hebrews 13:4
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4 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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1 Corinthians 6:9
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9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A)
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Matthew 5:27-28
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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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Deuteronomy 5:18
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18 “ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.
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Galatians 5:19
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19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,(A)
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Romans 2:22
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22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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Malachi 3:5
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5 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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Proverbs 6:29-33
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29 So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.(A)
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.(B)
32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
he who does it destroys himself.(C)
33 He will get wounds and dishonor,
and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
Proverbs 6:25
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25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(A)
2 Samuel 11:27
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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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2 Samuel 11:3-4
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3 David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, “This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”(A) 4 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.(B)
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Deuteronomy 22:25
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25 “But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.(A)
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Deuteronomy 22:22
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22 “If a man is discovered lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.(A)
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