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.

⁴ they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ Now ^(A)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(B)to stone such women. So what do you say?”

^18 (A)“‘And you shall not commit adultery.

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

^14 (A)“You shall not commit adultery.

⁴⁵ But righteous men ^(A)shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

⁴⁶ For thus says the Lord God: ^(B)“Bring up a vast host against them, and make them ^(C)an object of terror and ^(D)a plunder. ^47 (E)And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. ^(F)They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and ^(G)burn up their houses.

^13 (A)David said to Nathan, ^(B)“I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, ^(C)“The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

^22 (A)“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. ^(B)So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

²³ “If there is a ^(C)betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. ^(D)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.