Bible Verses About Results of Adultery
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for results of adultery, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 460 votes, led by Hebrews 13:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Results of Adultery
Hebrews 13:431 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Exodus 20:1427 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:2825 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-2823 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Deuteronomy 5:1820 votes
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Matthew 5:3220 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:1820 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Leviticus 20:1018 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:917 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Deuteronomy 22:2215 votes
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.
Matthew 19:915 votes
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.
Luke 16:1815 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Galatians 5:19-2114 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Hebrews 13:514 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Leviticus 20:1313 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Exodus 20:1712 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Matthew 5:2712 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Matthew 15:1912 votes
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 10:11-1212 votes
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Proverbs 5:18-2311 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 6:3211 votes
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Ezekiel 23:3711 votes
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
1 Corinthians 6:15-1611 votes
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians 7:10-1111 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Jeremiah 3:810 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about results of adultery?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of results of adultery. Across 460 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:14, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:27-28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.