Bible Verses About Infidelity
This collection includes 50 passages about Infidelity. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Scripture Passages
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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