‘You shall not commit adultery.

“You shall not commit adultery.

‘“If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife – with the wife of his neighbour – both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

‘You shall not commit adultery.

“‘And you shall not commit adultery.

The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;
he thinks, “No eye will see me,”
and he keeps his face concealed.

The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
and he veils his face.

When you see a thief, you join with him;
you throw in your lot with adulterers.

If you see a thief you are pleased with him,
and you keep company with adulterers.

But a man who commits adultery has no sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.

He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.

‘This is the way of an adulterous woman:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”

‘But you – come here, you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.

‘Why should I forgive you?
Your children have forsaken me
and sworn by gods that are not gods.
I supplied all their needs,
yet they committed adultery
and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
and have sworn by those who are no gods.
When I fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and trooped to the houses of whores.

‘“Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery swear falsely make offerings to Baal and go after other gods that you have not known,

Oh, that I had in the desert
a lodging place for travellers,
so that I might leave my people
and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,
a crowd of unfaithful people.

Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a company of treacherous men.

your adulteries and lustful neighings,
your shameless prostitution!
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?’

I have seen your abominations,
your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings,
on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will it be before you are made clean?”

The land is full of adulterers;
because of the curse the land lies parched
and the pastures in the wilderness are withered.
The prophets follow an evil course
and use their power unjustly.

For the land is full of adulterers;
because of the curse the land mourns,
and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course is evil,
and their might is not right.

And among the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen something horrible:
They commit adultery and live a lie.
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.
They are all like Sodom to me;
the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.’

But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
they commit adultery and walk in lies;
they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
all of them have become like Sodom to me,
and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies – which I did not authorise. I know it and am a witness to it,’ declares the Lord.

because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”

‘“You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.

And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, “Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.”

“Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!

But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

‘Rebuke your mother, rebuke her,
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband.
Let her remove the adulterous look from her face
and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

“Plead with your mother, plead—
for she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;

The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.’

And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

There is only cursing, lying and murder,
stealing and adultery;
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

They sacrifice on the mountaintops
and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak, poplar and terebinth,
where the shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution
and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
and burn offerings on the hills,
under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your brides commit adultery.

‘I will not punish your daughters
when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots
and sacrifice with shrine-prostitutes –
a people without understanding will come to ruin!

I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with cult prostitutes,
and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.

They are all adulterers,
burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.

‘So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,’ says the Lord Almighty.

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall not commit adultery.”

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

‘Which ones?’ he enquired.

Jesus replied, ‘“You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony ,

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

He answered, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.’

and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst

and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.

You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For he who said, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ also said, ‘You shall not murder.’ If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a law-breaker.

For he who said “Do not commit adultery,” also said “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.