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109 Bible Verses about Sexual Infidelity
Infidelity is such a heartbreaking act. It's a deviation from what's right, a real lack of ethics where you lose yourself in the moment, chasing pleasure while ignoring the deep pain you could cause your partner. It's tough, but God calls us to be faithful, to not let those desires control us.
We all face temptations daily, right? The only way I've found to stand strong against them is to really surrender those urges and lean on Jesus in those moments of weakness. He's always there. It's through Him that we can build healthy relationships, strong families, and find that inner peace, avoiding the devastating consequences of infidelity.
Let your faith in God be your main motivation for staying true. That way, you won't let God down, and you won't let down those who trust you. Remember, you can do all things through Christ who strengthens youPhilippians 4:13. There's no challenge you can't overcome with Him by your side.
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.
A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away;for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.
Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast, “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”
When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and behaved unfaithfully toward her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to produce bitterness – her abdomen will swell, her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.
But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the Lord.
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.(She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home –at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,“I have fresh meat at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with sexual intercourse.For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month.”She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snaretill an arrow pierces his liver – like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways – do not wander into her pathways;for she has brought down many fatally wounded, and all those she has slain are many.Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife –a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have not done wrong.”
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people.Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.
The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the faithless will be captured by their own desires.
For you must not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
For your husband is the one who made you – the Lord who commands armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called “God of the entire earth.”
I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.
“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.
Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions!
Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
I said of partying, “It is folly,” and of self-indulgent pleasure, “It accomplishes nothing!”
But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.
No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,for it is written, “You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.
When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.
Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.
The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich.
Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.
Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,
Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.
and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.
Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!See if there is any idolatrous tendency in me, and lead me in the reliable ancient path!
For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.
No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.
Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother – the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.
And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.
when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness.
Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.