Deuteronomy 5:18
16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
17 You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
19 You shall not steal.
20 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
- Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- WEB
- “You shall not commit adultery.
- ASV
- Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- DARBY
- Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- BLB
- And you shall not commit adultery.
- ÅB
- Og du skal ikke drive hor.
- OTB
- ‘Du skal ikke bryte ekteskapet.
- B1930
- Og du skal ikke drive hor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Read in contextLuke 18:20
You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
Read in contextMatthew 5:27–28
You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
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 contextProverbs 6:32–33
He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Read in contextJames 2:10–11
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Read in context