Matthew 5:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:18 : 18 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Exod 20:14 : 14 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Deut 22:22-24 : 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. 23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her; 24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.
  • Matt 5:21 : 21 You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:
  • Prov 6:32 : 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 5:28-29
    2 verses
    89%

    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.

    29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

  • Deut 5:17-21
    5 verses
    84%

    17 Do not put anyone to death without cause.

    18 Do not be false to the married relation.

    19 Do not take the property of another.

    20 Do not give false witness against your neighbour;

    21 Or 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.

  • 82%

    13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.

    14 Do not be false to the married relation.

    15 Do not take the property of another.

    16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

    17 Let 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.

  • Matt 5:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

    31 Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32 But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

    33 Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:

  • 11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

  • 21 You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:

  • 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?

  • 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • 18 He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,

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    11 And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

    12 And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

  • 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.

  • Num 5:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

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

    13 By 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;

  • 38 You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

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

  • 32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • 19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • 20 You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.

  • John 8:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3 Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;

    4 And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

    5 Now in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do you say about it?

  • 9 And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

  • 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.

  • 26 Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.

  • 18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

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

  • 29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • 32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • 9 And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

  • 7 You are to have no other gods but me.

  • 30 You 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.

  • 4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

  • 18 When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

  • 43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

  • 18 You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

  • 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • 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.