Exodus 20:14
The seventh commandment: 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.'
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From The City of God by Saint Augustine
Scripture forbids all sexual activity outside the marriage covenant—adultery, fornication, and lust—warning of severe temporal and eternal consequences while offering forgiveness through Christ.
Matthew 5:27-28
Jesus internalizes the law: lustful looking is adultery in the heart.
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'Flee fornication'—sexual sin is uniquely against the body, which is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
Read in Books4Free →Proverbs 6:23-32
Extended warning against the adulteress: can a man take fire in his bosom?
Read in Books4Free →Hebrews 13:4
Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Read in Books4Free →1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.
Read in Books4Free →Proverbs 5:3-23
Drink waters out of thine own cistern—warning against the strange woman.
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Fornicators, adulterers, and effeminate shall not inherit the kingdom.
Read in Books4Free →John 8:3-11
Woman caught in adultery: 'Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.'
Read in Books4Free →Galatians 5:19
Works of the flesh manifest: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.
Read in Books4Free →2 Samuel 11:1-27
David and Bathsheba—the archetypal account of adultery's destruction.
Read in Books4Free →Proverbs 7:6-27
The young man void of understanding seduced by the strange woman.
Read in Books4Free →Leviticus 20:10
Old Testament penalty for adultery: both shall surely be put to death.
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