What Does the Bible Say About Commiting Adultery?

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Mark 10:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Malachi 2:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it. So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts. My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Deuteronomy 24:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken. ...

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Matthew 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 19:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”

19 Bible Verses about Commiting Adultery

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 2:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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19 Bible Verses about Commiting Adultery

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Matthew 19:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Malachi 2:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote