What Does the Bible Say About Repeated Infidelity?

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. ...

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. ...

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Matthew 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Matthew 1:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

John 8:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” ...

34 Bible Verses about Repeated Infidelity

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Repeated Infidelity

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 19:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 1:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Daniel 4:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 54:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 8:1-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote