Exodus 20:14

The seventh commandment forbids adultery. Marriage is sacred and must be kept faithful and pure.

Cross-references · 20

• Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Deut 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
• Rom 7:2–3For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
• Rom 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Lev 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
• Matt 5:27–28You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Mark 10:11–12So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
• Lev 18:20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
• Jer 5:8–9They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
• 2 Sam 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Eph 5:3–5But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
• Matt 19:18“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
• Prov 2:15–18whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
• Prov 7:18–27Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
• Prov 6:24–35to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
• Jer 29:22–23Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
• 2 Sam 11:4–5Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

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