Jeremiah 5:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You are no better than animals, and you always want sex with someone else's wife.

Cross References

Genesis 39:9

No one in my master's house is more important than I am. The only thing he hasn't given me is you, and that's because you are his wife. I won't sin against God by doing such a terrible thing as this.”

Job 31:9

If I have desired someone's wife and chased after her,

Exodus 20:14

Be faithful in marriage.

Exodus 20:17

Do not want to take anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want to take anyone's house, wife or husband, slaves, oxen, donkeys or anything else.

Proverbs 6:29

And if you go to bed with another man's wife, you pay the price.

Jeremiah 23:10

Those unfaithful prophets misuse their power all over the country. So God turned the pasture lands into scorching deserts.

Jeremiah 50:11

People of Babylonia, you were glad to rob my people. You had a good time, making more noise than horses and jumping around like calves threshing grain.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I could go into the desert and find a hiding place from all who are treacherous and unfaithful to God.

Ezekiel 22:11

or with someone else's wife. Some men even sleep with their own daughter-in-law or half-sister.

Deuteronomy 5:18

Be faithful in marriage.

Deuteronomy 5:21

Do not want to take anything that belongs to someone else. Don't want to take anyone's wife or husband, house, land, slaves, oxen, donkeys, or anything else.