Adultery, in any form, is a sin against God, the Bible, and your spouse (or future spouse). Lust and adultery are equivalent, as Jesus said that whoever lusts after a woman has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Paul commands us to avoid lust and adultery and to abstain from sexual sin.
Bible verses on Adultery:
Exodus 20:14 – “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
Leviticus 20:10 – “And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Deuteronomy 5:18 – “Neither shalt thou commit adultery.”
Proverbs 6:32 – “But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.”
Matthew 5:27 – 5:28 – “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Matthew 19:9 – “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”
Mark 10:11 – “And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.”
Mark 10:12 – “And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”
Mark 10:19 – “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.”
Luke 16:18 – “Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.”
Luke 18:20 – “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.”
Revelation 2:22 – “Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.”
Proverbs 6:25 – “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
Acts 15:29 – “That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
Acts 21:25 – “As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.”
Romans 1:29 – “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,”
1 Corinthians 6:13 – “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
1 Corinthians 7:2 – “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
1 Corinthians 10:8 – “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
2 Corinthians 12:21 – “And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.”
Galatians 5:19 – “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
Ephesians 5:3 – “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
1 Thessalonians 4:3 – “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
