Best 15 Bible Verses About Affairs and Adultery

Curious what the Bible says about affairs and adultery? Here are our best 15 Bible verses about affairs and adultery to answer your questions and clarify God’s position on the matter.  These Bible verses make it evident that a person who has an affair has not truly come to know Christ. However, adultery is not unforgiveable, either. Any sin committed by an unbeliever can be forgiven when that person comes to Christ in faith.

Here are our best 15 Bible verses about affairs and adultery for you to study!

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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 5:32

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You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

- Isaiah 47:10

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I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

- Jeremiah 13:27

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So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

- Proverbs 2:16-22

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Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

- Proverbs 28:13

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Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

- Proverbs 27:5

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“You shall not commit adultery.

- Exodus 20:14

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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 5:28

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For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.

- 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

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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 6:18

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Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

- John 8:34

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Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

- Ephesians 5:25

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So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

- James 4:17

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

- Hebrews 13:4

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

- 1 John 1:9

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Total Quotes Found: 15

5 Stories From The Bible About Affairs and Adultery

Here are 5 stories from the Bible that relate to adultery and affairs.

Leads to Poverty

When a man or a woman has an affair or commits adultery, it will come with a great price tag.  Often divorces are messy and it costs both sides.   Some couples are even driven to near bankruptcy over the costs of the divorce, but more so, it breaks the law of God, so “for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life” (Proverbs 6:26).  Any sexual immorality leads to a path of poverty; either spiritual or financial, and often both.

Held in Honor

Marriage is the highest plain we can reach as far as human relationships are concerned.  That’s why the author of Hebrews admonishes us to “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous” (Hebrews 13:4).  Any sex outside of marriage, no matter what excuse is used, will bring God’s judgment; either in this life, or the next, and maybe both.

Committing Adultery

Jesus narrowed down the reasons for divorce and it was for ongoing adultery.  The innocent spouse is free to marry, but not so for the one who divorces his spouse and has committed adultery.  Jesus would say to them, “whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery” (Matthew 19:9).  That’s very black and white.  It is only for sexual immorality (adultery) that a man or a woman can biblically divorce.

Getting Burned

The world is full of cause and effect, and it’s the same thing with relationships, particularly illicit ones.  We can’t think we’re getting away with something if no one sees us. For one thing, God sees us.  More than likely, a sexually immoral person will be found out in the end, so Solomon asks the rhetorical question, “Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned” (Proverbs 6:27)?  The obvious answer is no…someone’s going to get burned.

Adultery of the Heart

There is more to adultery than just the physical act.  That’s why pornography is so destructive to marriage and families.  Jesus says, “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 5:27-28).   Looking and lusting after someone who is not your spouse is just as bad as being in bed with them.  Although the physical act is worse, even the thought of it is sin.

The train wrecks that adulterous affairs have left in their wake are awful.  So many families have been ruined for a “heat of the moment” affair that forever changes the relationship with their spouse.  It’s never quite the same again.  You cannot unscramble an egg; what’s done is done, so it’s best to avoid any situation where the temptation arises for an adulterous affair.

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