| Exodus
20:14 (ESV) 14 “You shall not commit adultery. Proverbs 7:1-27 (ESV) 1 My
son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2 keep my
commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3 bind them
on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom,
“You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, 5 to keep you
from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. 6 For at
the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 7 and I have
seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking
sense, 8 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her
house 9 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
10 And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
11 She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; 12 now in the
street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. 13 She
seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, 14 “I had to
offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; 15 so now I have come out to
meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. 16 I have spread my
couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; 17 I have perfumed
my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love
till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. 19 For my husband is not at
home; he has gone on a long journey; 20 he took a bag of money with him; at
full moon he will come home.” 21 With much seductive speech she persuades
him; with her smooth talk she compels him. 22 All at once he follows her, as
an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast 23 till an arrow
pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it
will cost him his life. 24 And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to
the words of my mouth. 25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not
stray into her paths, 26 for many a victim has she laid low, and all her
slain are a mighty throng. 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to
the chambers of death. 1 Corinthians 6:9 (ESV) 9 Or do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither
the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice
homosexuality, Hebrews 13:4 (ESV) 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all,
and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually
immoral and adulterous. Matthew 19:9 (ESV) 9 And I say to you: whoever
divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits
adultery.” |
