³ Accordingly, ^(A)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.

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

^32 (A)But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and ^(B)whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

⁶ But ^(A)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^(B)male and female.’ ^7 (C)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^{[a] 8} and ^(D)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^9 (E)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

¹⁰ And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹ And he said to them, ^(F)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, ¹² and ^(G)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

¹¹ But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when ^(A)their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry ¹² and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. ¹³ Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also ^(B)gossips and ^(C)busybodies, saying what they should not. ¹⁴ So I would have ^(D)younger widows marry, bear children, ^(E)manage their households, and ^(F)give the adversary no occasion for slander.

³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 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?”

^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.

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.

³⁹ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, ^(A)“Blessed be the Lord who has ^(B)avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, ^(C)and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. ^(D)The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and ^(E)spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. ⁴⁰ When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” ⁴¹ And she rose ^(F)and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” ⁴² And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.