Quotes about Adultery
The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
- John Updike
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
- Jimmy Carter
Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
- Marquis de Sade
Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.
- Paul David Tripp
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- Genesis 20:3
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
- Leviticus 18:18
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
- Leviticus 18:20
If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
- Leviticus 19:20
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:10
If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Leviticus 20:11
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
- Numbers 5:12
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
- Numbers 5:13