Adultery is the act of sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife, or sexual intercourse between a married woman and someone other than her husband. Adultery violates the bond of the marriage union.
Many people turn to Scripture to find the definition of adultery and how it applies to marriage and divorce.
God’s word tells us just how harmful adultery can be, but it also speaks of grace and mercy from a loving God.
What are the definition of Adultery and fornication in the Bible?
(Jeremiah 3:8)
“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.”
(Ezekiel 16:26)
“Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.”
(Matthew 5:27–28)
“You have heard the commandment that says, ‘You must not commit adultery.’ But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
(Matthew 15:19)
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies”
(Matthew 19:9)
“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.”
(Matthew 5:31–32)
“You have heard the law that says, ‘A man can divorce his wife by merely giving her a written notice of divorce.’ But I say that a man who divorces his wife, unless she has been unfaithful, causes her to commit adultery. And anyone who marries a divorced woman also commits adultery.”
(Hebrews 12:16 )
“lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.”
(Galatians 5:19)
“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness.”
(Mark 7:21 )
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders.”
(1 Corinthians 10:8)
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
(1 Corinthians 6:18 )
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
( Ephesians 5:3)
“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.”
(Hebrews 13:4)
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
