Leviticus 18:20

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And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:14 : 14 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Lev 20:10 : 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
  • Matt 5:27-28 : 27 You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • Deut 5:18 : 18 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Deut 22:22 : 22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.
  • Deut 22:25 : 25 But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;
  • 2 Sam 11:3-4 : 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 6:29-33 : 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment. 30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: 31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house. 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. 33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
  • Rom 2:22 : 22 You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:11-19
    9 verses
    87%

    11Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.

    12You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.

    13You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.

    14You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

    15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

    16You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

    17You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

    19And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

  • Lev 18:21-24
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    82%

    21And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

    22You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

    23And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

    24Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Exod 20:14-17
    4 verses
    81%

    14Do not be false to the married relation.

    15Do not take the property of another.

    16Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

    17Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

  • Deut 5:18
    80%

    18Do not be false to the married relation.

  • Deut 5:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

    21Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

  • Ezek 18:15
    79%

    15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Lev 18:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

    7You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

    8And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

  • Lev 20:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

    11And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • Ezek 18:11
    78%

    11Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 19:20
    78%

    20If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • Num 5:20
    78%

    20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Prov 6:29
    77%

    29So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

  • Ezek 22:11
    77%

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Deut 22:30
    77%

    30A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • Lev 20:18-21
    4 verses
    76%

    18And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

    19And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.

    20And if a man has sex relations with the wife of his father's brother, he has put shame on his father's brother: their sin will be on them; till the day of their death they will have no children.

    21And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.

  • Ezek 18:6
    76%

    6And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

  • Lev 19:29
    76%

    29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • Lev 19:11
    76%

    11Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

  • Lev 18:27
    75%

    27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • Lev 15:18
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    18And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

  • Ezek 33:26
    75%

    26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?

  • Lev 18:30
    75%

    30So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 28:30
    74%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Lev 20:14
    74%

    14And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

  • Deut 22:22
    74%

    22If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • Exod 34:15
    74%

    15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Jer 3:2
    74%

    2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.