Verse 20

Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:14 : 14 You shall not commit adultery.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
  • Matt 5:27-28 : 27 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality,
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • Deut 5:18 : 18 You shall not commit adultery.
  • Deut 22:22 : 22 If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman who were together must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  • Deut 22:25 : 25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and forces her and lies with her, only the man who has done this shall die.
  • 2 Sam 11:3-4 : 3 David sent someone to inquire about the woman, and it was reported to him, 'Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' 4 So David sent messengers, took her, and she came to him. He slept with her while she was purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house.
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 After the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her captivate you with her eyes.
  • Prov 6:29-33 : 29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished. 30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving. 31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay back sevenfold; he may have to give up all the wealth of his house. 32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense; he destroys himself. 33 He will suffer wounds and disgrace, and his shame will never be wiped away.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,
  • Rom 2:22 : 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?