'Thou dost not commit adultery.Exodus 20:14 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThou shalt not commit adultery - Adultery, as defined by our laws, is of two kinds; double, when between two married persons; single, when one of the parties is married, the other single. One principal part of the criminality of adultery consists in its injustice.
1. It robs a man of his right by taking from him the affection of his wife.
2. It does him a wrong by fathering on him and obliging him to maintain as his own a spurious offspring - a child which is not his. The act itself, and every thing leading to the act, is prohibited by this commandment; for our Lord says, Even he who looks on a woman to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart. And not only adultery (the unlawful commerce between two married persons) is forbidden here, but also fornication and all kinds of mental and sensual uncleanness. All impure books, songs, paintings, etc., which tend to inflame and debauch the mind, are against this law, as well as another species of impurity, for the account of which the reader is referred to; See Clarke's note on Genesis 38:30.
That fornication was included under this command we may gather from St. Matthew, Matthew 15:19, where our Savior expresses the sense of the different commandments by a word for each, and mentions them in the order in which they stand; but when he comes to the seventh he uses two words, μοιχειαι πορνειαι, to express its meaning, and then goes on to the eighth, etc.; thus evidently showing that fornication was understood to be comprehended under the command, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." As to the word adultery, adulterium, it has probably been derived from the words ad alterius torum, to another's bed; for it is going to the bed of another man that constitutes the act and the crime. Adultery often means idolatry in the worship of God.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Exodus 18:20 And you shall teach them ordinances and laws, and shall show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter...
2 Samuel 11:4,5,27 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness...
Proverbs 2:15-18 Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths...
Proverbs 6:24-35 To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman...
Proverbs 7:18-27 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves...
Jeremiah 5:8,9 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife...
Jeremiah 29:22,23 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying...
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers...
Matthew 5:27,28 You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not commit adultery...
Mark 10:11,12 And he said to them, Whoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery against her...
Romans 7:2,3 For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead...
Ephesians 5:3-5 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints...
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?...
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters...
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