Exodus 20:14

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

Cross-references · 20

• Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Deut 5:18“You shall not commit adultery.
• Rom 7:2–3For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
• Rom 13:9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Lev 20:10“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
• Matt 5:27–28“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’
• Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Mark 10:11–12He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
• Lev 18:20“‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.
• Jer 5:8–9They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
• 2 Sam 11:27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
• Eph 5:3–5But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• Matt 19:18He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’
• Prov 2:15–18who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
• Prov 7:18–27Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
• Prov 6:24–35to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
• Jer 29:22–23A curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
• 2 Sam 11:4–5David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

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