Adultery

118 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Absalom

2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Amnon

2 Samuel 13:1–20 After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom. …

Corinthians

1 Corinthians 5:1–5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. …

David

2 Samuel 11:1–5 In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. …

Figurative

Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your …
Ezekiel 16:15–16 But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking. …
Hosea 1:1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.

Forbidden

Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 18:20 You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
Leviticus 19:29 You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
Deuteronomy 5:18 You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Matthew 5:27 You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
Matthew 19:18 “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
Luke 18:20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Romans 13:9 The 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.”
Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
1 Corinthians 5:9–11 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. …
1 Corinthians 6:13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
1 Corinthians 10:8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
Ephesians 4:19–20 Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. …
Ephesians 5:3 But 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.
Ephesians 5:11–12 Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. …
Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; …
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
James 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

Forgiveness of – Instances of

Judges 19:1–4 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. …
John 8:10–11 Then Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?” …

General Scriptures Concerning

Genesis 20:3 One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
2 Samuel 12:14 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”
Job 24:15–18 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. …
Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
Proverbs 2:16–19 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words …
Proverbs 5:3–22 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, …
Proverbs 6:24–29 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. …
Proverbs 6:32–33 He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. …
Proverbs 7:5–23 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. …
Proverbs 9:13–18 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. …
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Proverbs 23:27–28 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. …
Proverbs 29:3 A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Proverbs 30:18–20 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: …
Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
Isaiah 57:3–4 “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! …
Jeremiah 3:1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers — and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:7–8 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. …
Jeremiah 7:9–10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, …
Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers — because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up — their course is evil and their power is misused.
Ezekiel 18:5–6 Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right: …
Hosea 4:1–2 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! …
Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding.
Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Matthew 19:9 Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
Mark 7:21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Mark 10:11–12 So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. …
Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
Luke 16:18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Acts 15:29 You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
Romans 1:28–29 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. …
Romans 1:32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
Romans 7:3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
1 Corinthians 5:9–10 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. …
1 Corinthians 6:15–18 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! …
1 Corinthians 10:8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Galatians 5:19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:9–10 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers, …
2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
James 2:11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
1 Peter 4:3–4 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. …
2 Peter 2:9–10 if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. …
2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Jude 7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 2:20–22 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. …
Revelation 9:21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

Gilead

Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Heathen

Ephesians 4:17–19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. …
1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Herod

Matthew 14:3–4 Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, …
Mark 6:17–18 For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married. …
Luke 3:19 But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Israelites

Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
Jeremiah 29:23 For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
Ezekiel 22:9–11 Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency. …
Ezekiel 33:26 You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’
Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

Judah

Genesis 38:1–24 About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite. …

Lot

Genesis 19:31–38 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth. …

Penalties For

Genesis 20:7 Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die — you and all who belong to you.”
Genesis 26:11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Genesis 38:24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
Exodus 22:16–17 If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife. …
Leviticus 19:20–22 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed. …
Leviticus 20:10–12 If 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. …
Leviticus 21:9 If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Numbers 5:11–29 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
Deuteronomy 22:13–29 Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, …
Deuteronomy 27:20 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:22–23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ …
2 Samuel 12:10–12 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ …
Jeremiah 29:22–23 Because 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!’ …
Ezekiel 16:38 And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:40–41 They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. …
Ezekiel 23:45 But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
Ezekiel 23:47–48 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. …
Malachi 2:5 “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
John 8:4–5 and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. …
1 Corinthians 5:1–13 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. …
1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, …
1 Corinthians 10:8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Galatians 5:19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Galatians 5:21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:5–6 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. …
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Revelation 18:9–10 Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. …
Revelation 21:8 But 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.”
Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Potiphar's Wife

Genesis 39:7–12 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” …

Reuben

Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

Samson

Judges 16:1 One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Shechem

Genesis 34:2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

Sodomites

Genesis 19:5–8 They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!” …

Sons of Eli

1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

The Gibeahites

Judges 19:22–25 While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have …

The Levite's Concubine

Judges 19:2 But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,

The Samaritan Woman

John 4:17–18 “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband. …

The Woman Brought to Jesus in the Temple

John 8:4–11 and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. …

Adultery

Absalom

Amnon

Corinthians

David

Figurative

Forbidden

Forgiveness of – Instances of

General Scriptures Concerning

Gilead

Heathen

Herod

Israelites

Judah

Lot

Penalties For

Potiphar's Wife

Reuben

Samson

Shechem

Sodomites

Sons of Eli

The Gibeahites

The Levite's Concubine

The Samaritan Woman

The Woman Brought to Jesus in the Temple

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