Leviticus 18:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.”
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“You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:20 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
- Deuteronomy 22:22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:25But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
- 2 Samuel 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- 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.
- Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
- Proverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
- 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.
- Matthew 5:27You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
- Romans 2:22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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