Leviticus 18:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27

When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,

Leviticus 20:10

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

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 5:13

if a man has had intercourse with her but it is hidden from her husband, so that she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her since she was not caught in the act;

Romans 2:22

You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

Deuteronomy 22:22

“If a man is discovered lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:25

“But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

Deuteronomy 5:18

“ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.