30 Bible Verses about Infidelity

You shall not commit adultery.

But a man who commits adultery has no sense; he who does so destroys himself.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.

For many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

So David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor.

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

We must not indulge in sexual immorality, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.

I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

And all for the countless harlotries of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her sorceries.

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

There is not a woman who can say she has not been in love with her own unhappiness.

A woman cannot be herself in modern society; it is an exclusive society, and within it, she cannot be both a mother and a lover.

The one who loves is the one who has the most chance of losing.

There’s nothing more important than the freedom to love and be loved, and there’s nothing more tragic than infidelity.