What Does the Bible Say About Adultress?

Proverbs 6:27-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. ...

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

[[They went each to his own house, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ...

Proverbs 6:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

Proverbs 5:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

Proverbs 5:8-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! ...

Proverbs 5:3-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Titus 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

[[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. ...

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

15 Bible Verses about Adultress

Proverbs 6:27-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:8-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:3-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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15 Bible Verses about Adultress

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Proverbs 6:27-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 7:53-8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:23-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:20-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:8-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:3-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Mark 16:9-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 1 helpful vote