Commandment Seven
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Definition
Sexual relations between a married or betrothed woman and anyone other than her husband. In the Bible, adultery is punishable by death. Used as a metaphor for unfaithfulness to God.
Exodus 20:14 ““You shall not commit adultery.”
Leviticus 20:10 ““If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Deuteronomy 22:22–25 ““If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.”
Hebrews 13:4 “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
Genesis 2:24 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
1. Wrong place, wrong time has no bearing on the sin of adultery
1. Wrong place, wrong time has no bearing on the sin of adultery
2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba
Genesis 39 Joseph and Potipher’s Wife
a. It is a momentary decision
a. It is a momentary decision
b. It is an intentional action
b. It is an intentional action
2. Adultery is a selfish desire
2. Adultery is a selfish desire
a. It begins with a lie
a. It begins with a lie
b. It has dire consequences
b. It has dire consequences
3. Adultery is a heart problem
3. Adultery is a heart problem
Matthew 5:27 ““You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’”
Matthew 5:28 “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
4. The solution is
4. The solution is
a. A prioritized relationship
a. A prioritized relationship
b. A purposeful plan
b. A purposeful plan
c. A purging of the evil in our lives
c. A purging of the evil in our lives
