Exodus 20:14
12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
13 You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You shall not commit adultery.
- KJV
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- WEB
- “You shall not commit adultery.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- BLB
- You shall not commit adultery.
- ÅB
- Du skal ikke drive hor.
- OTB
- "Du skal ikke bryte ekteskapet.
- B1930
- Du skal ikke drive hor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 5:18
You shall not commit adultery.
Read in contextRomans 7:2–3
For 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.
Read in contextRomans 13:9
The 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.”
Read in contextLeviticus 20:10
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.
Read in contextMatthew 5:27–28
You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But 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.”
Read in contextLeviticus 18:20
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
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