What does the Bible say about results of adultery?

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The Bible teaches that adultery is a serious sin against God, one’s spouse, and the covenant of marriage, bringing judgment and deep personal harm unless met with repentance and faith in Christ. Exodus 20:14 and Deuteronomy 5:18 plainly forbid it, while Hebrews 13:4 warns that God will judge sexual immorality and adultery. Jesus exposes its heart-level roots, teaching in Matthew 5:27-28 that lustful desire is itself sinful. Scripture also warns that divorce and remarriage contrary to God’s design can involve adultery (Matthew 5:32; Luke 16:18). Yet the gospel offers cleansing and new life: those who flee sexual sin and turn to Christ may be forgiven and sanctified (1 Corinthians 6:9, 18).

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  • 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.

  • Exodus 20:14

    "You shall not commit 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.

  • Matthew 5:27-28

    [27] "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;' [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.

  • Deuteronomy 5:18

    "Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Leviticus 20:10

    "'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

  • Luke 16:18

    Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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