Exodus 20:14

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“You shall not commit adultery.”

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“You shall not commit adultery.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
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“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“`Thou dost not commit adultery.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 20:14 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 39:9No one in this house is greater 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?”
  2. Leviticus 18:20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
  3. Leviticus 20:10If 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.
  4. Numbers 5:12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
  5. Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
  6. 2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
  7. 2 Samuel 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  8. Proverbs 2:15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
  9. Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
  10. Proverbs 7:18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
  11. Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
  12. Jeremiah 29:22Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
  13. Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
  14. Matthew 5:27You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
  15. Matthew 19:18“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
  16. Mark 10:11So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
  17. Romans 7:2For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
  18. Romans 13:9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
  19. Ephesians 5:3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
  20. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  21. James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
  22. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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