You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife, defiling yourself with her.

If a man commits adultery with a married woman-- if he commits adultery with his neighbor's wife-- both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterwards, she returned home.

The woman conceived and sent word to inform David: "I am pregnant."

When the time of mourning ended, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. However, the LORD considered what David had done to be evil.

whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after [your] very life.

Can a man walk on coals without scorching his feet?

People don't despise the thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.

The one who commits adultery lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning. Let's feast on each other's love!

He took a bag of money with him and will come home at the time of the full moon."

He follows her impulsively like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding toward a trap

Now, [my] sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

For she has brought many down to death; her victims are countless.

They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else's wife.

Should I not punish them for these things? [This is] the LORD's declaration. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Based on [what happens to] them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse that says: May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!

because they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbors' wives and have spoken a lie in My name, which I did not command them. I am He who knows, and I am a witness." [This is] the LORD's declaration.

"I will come to you in judgment, and I will be ready to witness against sorcerers and adulterers; against those who swear falsely; against those who oppress the widow and the fatherless, and cheat the wage earner; and against those who deny [justice to] the foreigner. They do not fear Me," says the LORD of Hosts.

"You have heard that it was said, Do not commit adultery.

But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

And He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

For know and recognize this: no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

Adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars-- their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."