Bible Verses about Infidelity

Infidelity can be a difficult topic, but the Bible has important messages about faithfulness and trust. In this blog post, we’ll explore some Bible verses that talk about infidelity. These verses help us understand the value of being true to our promises and relationships. They also show how important it is to stay faithful to our commitments. Let’s dive into these scriptures to learn more about what the Bible says and how we can apply these lessons to our lives.

Bible Verses about Infidelity

Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.”

Leviticus 20:10 – “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.”

Proverbs 6:32 – “But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.”

Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Matthew 19:9 – “I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

Mark 10:11-12 – “He answered, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.’”

John 8:3-4 – “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.’”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men.”

Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”

Jeremiah 3:8 – “She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.”

Ezekiel 16:32 – “You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!”

Hosea 3:1 – “The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.’”

Hosea 4:12 – “My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.”

Proverbs 5:3-4 – “For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.”

Proverbs 7:19-20 – “My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon.”

Malachi 2:16 – “‘The man who hates and divorces his wife,’ says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘does violence to the one he should protect,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.’”

James 4:4 – “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3 – “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;”

Galatians 5:19-21 – “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Romans 13:13 – “Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.”

1 John 2:16 – “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

Revelation 2:22 – “So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.”

Revelation 17:2 – “With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

Revelation 18:3 – “All the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”

Proverbs 6:24 – “Keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk from the wayward woman.”

Proverbs 7:5 – “So that they will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.”

Proverbs 7:22 – “All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose.”

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.”

Matthew 19:18-19 – “‘Which ones?’ he inquired. Jesus replied, ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Ephesians 5:3 – “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”

Colossians 3:5 – “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.”

Titus 1:15 – “To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.”

2 Samuel 11:4 – “Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness. Then she went back home.”

2 Samuel 12:9 – “Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.”

2 Samuel 12:14 – “But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”

Jeremiah 3:9 – “Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.”

Jeremiah 3:20 – “But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,” declares the Lord.”

Ezekiel 23:37 – “They have committed adultery with their idols; they have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.”

Ezekiel 23:45 – “But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.”

Hosea 5:4 – “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.”

Hosea 6:10 – “In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.”

Hosea 7:4 – “They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.”

Hosea 8:9 – “They have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.”

Matthew 5:32 – “But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

Matthew 7:3-5 – “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

John 4:18 – “The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

Revelation 2:14 – “Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.”

Revelation 2:20 – “Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.”

Proverbs 2:16 – “It will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.”

Proverbs 7:10 – “Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.”

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