Adultery

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 20:3 OT

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

• 2 Samuel 12:14 OT

  However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

• Job 24:15-18 OT

  The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face. In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light. For the morning is to all of…

• Job 31:1 OT

  “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

• Job 31:9-12 OT

  “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door, then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her. For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the…

• Proverbs 2:16-19 OT

  to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.…

• Proverbs 5:3-22 OT

  For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. She gives no thought to…

• Proverbs 6:24-29 OT

  to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue. Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress…

• Proverbs 6:32 OT

  He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

• Proverbs 6:33 OT

  He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

• Proverbs 7:5-23 OT

  that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of…

• Proverbs 9:13-18 OT

  The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in…

• Proverbs 22:14 OT

  The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

• Proverbs 23:27 OT

  For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

• Proverbs 23:28 OT

  Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

• Proverbs 29:3 OT

  Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

• Proverbs 30:18-20 OT

  “There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand: The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. “So is the…

• Proverbs 31:3 OT

  Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

• Isaiah 57:3 OT

  “But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

• Isaiah 57:4 OT

  Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

• Jeremiah 3:1 OT

  “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to…

• Jeremiah 5:7 OT

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

• Jeremiah 5:8 OT

  They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

• Jeremiah 7:9 OT

  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,