Adultery and Sexual Sin

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

The seventh commandment: 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.'

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Jesus extends adultery to lustful looking; 'whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.'

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jesus extends adultery to lustful looking; 'whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.'

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Jesus extends adultery to lustful looking; 'whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.'

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Jesus extends adultery to lustful looking; 'whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.'

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

'Flee fornication... your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.'

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

'Flee fornication... your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.'

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

'Flee fornication... your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.'

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Warnings against the adulteress; whoso committeth adultery destroyeth his own soul.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

'Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.'

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

God's will is your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Extended warning against the strange woman and counsel to rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Woman caught in adultery; 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness among works of the flesh.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness among works of the flesh.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness among works of the flesh.

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.

Old Testament penalty for adultery.

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

David and Bathsheba—the paradigmatic narrative of adultery and its consequences.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Fornication and uncleanness 'let it not be once named among you.'