xSee 1 Cor. 6:9
Leviticus 20:10
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10“If a aman commits adultery with the wife of ▼▼Hebrew repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of
his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Job 31:9-11
9 “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman,and I have clain in wait at my neighbor’s door,
10then let my wife dgrind for another,
and let others ebow down on her.
11For that would be a heinous crime;
that would be an iniquity fto be punished by the judges;
Proverbs 2:16-19
16 So gyou will be delivered from the forbidden ▼▼Hebrew strange
woman,from ithe adulteress ▼
▼Hebrew foreign woman
with kher smooth words,17who forsakes lthe companion of her youth
and forgets mthe covenant of her God;
18 nfor her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed; ▼
▼Hebrew to the Rephaim
19none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
Proverbs 7:19-23
19For pmy husband is not at home;he has gone on a long journey;
20he took a bag of money with him;
at full moon he will come home.”
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with qher smooth talk she compels him.
22All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast ▼
▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as an anklet for the discipline of a fool
23till an arrow pierces its liver;
as sa bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Jeremiah 5:8-9
8They were well-fed, lusty stallions,teach neighing ufor his neighbor’s wife.
9 vShall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord;
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Hebrews 13:4
4 wLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge xthe sexually immoral and adulterous.
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