What does the Bible say about affairs?

Top passages, ranked by readers

Rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY) · Scripture: World English Bible

• Hebrews 13:4

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

• Proverbs 28:13

  He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, But whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

• Matthew 5:32

  but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

• Matthew 5:28

  but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Ephesians 5:25

  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

• John 8:34

  Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

• Isaiah 47:10

  For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

• Proverbs 2:16-22

  [16] To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; [17] Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God: [18] For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead. [19] None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life: [20] That you may walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. [21] For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it. [22] But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

• 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

  [3] For though we walk in the flesh, we don't wage war according to the flesh; [4] for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, [5] throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Related topics

• emotional affairs
• extra marital affairs