What Does The Bible Say About Adultery Pregnancy? (35 Bible Verses)
Adultery and pregnancy can complicate an already challenging situation. The Bible offers stories and teachings that provide insight into dealing with such circumstances with compassion and wisdom. Join us as we explore what the Bible says about adultery and pregnancy, and how to find grace and guidance through Scripture.
What Does The Bible Say About Adultery Pregnancy
1. Genesis 2:24 – God’s Design for Marriage
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
2. Exodus 20:14 – God’s Commandment: Do Not Commit Adultery
“You shall not commit adultery.”
3. Proverbs 6:32 – The Consequences of Adultery
“But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does so destroys his own soul.”
4. Matthew 5:27-28 – Jesus’ Teaching on Adultery
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
5. Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage and Adultery
“Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
6. 1 Corinthians 6:18 – Flee from Sexual Immorality
“Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
7. Galatians 5:19-21 – Adultery as a Work of the Flesh
“Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness… those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
8. Matthew 19:9 – Divorce and Adultery
“And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
9. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 – Abstain from Sexual Immorality
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God.”
10. Proverbs 5:15-20 – The Blessing of Fidelity in Marriage
“Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well… Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.”
11. Ephesians 5:3 – Let There Be No Sexual Immorality
“But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints.”
12. Proverbs 7:25-27 – Guard Your Heart and Path from Adultery
“Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways… Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be seared?”
13. 1 Corinthians 7:2 – Let Each Man Have His Own Wife
“Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
14. Proverbs 6:25-26 – Guard Your Heart from Lustful Desires
“Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids. For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread; and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.”
15. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – Adulterers Will Not Inherit the Kingdom
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers… will inherit the kingdom of God.”
16. Proverbs 2:16-19 – Delivering from the Immoral Woman
“To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words… None who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life.”
17. Mark 10:9 – What God Has Joined Together
“Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
18. 1 Corinthians 10:8 – Do Not Indulge in Sexual Immorality
“Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.”
19. Proverbs 23:27-28 – Beware of the Adulteress
“For a harlot is a deep pit, and a seductress is a narrow well… She lies in wait as for a victim, and increases the unfaithful among men.”
20. Matthew 15:19 – Out of the Heart Come Adulteries
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.”
21. Proverbs 22:14 – The Mouth of an Immoral Woman
“The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.”
22. Corinthians 15:33 – Bad Company Corrupts Good Morals
“Do not be deceived: ‘Evil company corrupts good habits.’”
23. Jeremiah 3:8 – Israel’s Adultery
“Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.”
24. James 4:4 – Friendship with the World Is Enmity with God
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
25. Proverbs 9:17 – Stolen Water Is Sweet
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
26. 1 Corinthians 7:39 – Remarriage Only in the Lord
“A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.”
27. Romans 7:3 – Released from the Law of Marriage
“So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.”
28. Proverbs 9:13-18 – Forbidden Pleasures and the Way of Death
“The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing… But the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.”
29. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 – Do Not Keep Company with Sexual Immorality
“I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people… But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral… not even to eat with such a person.”
30. Proverbs 30:20 – The Immoral’s Woman Way
“This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wickedness.’”
31. 2 Peter 2:14 – Deceptive Adulterous
“Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.”
32. Hosea 4:2 – Swearing, Lying, Killing, Stealing, and Committing Adultery
“By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed.”
33. Proverbs 5:3-6 – The Adulterous Woman’s Lips
“For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword… Lest you ponder her path of life—her ways are unstable; you do not know them.”
34. Hosea 4:13-14 – The People Who Commit Adultery
“They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops, and burn incense on the hills… and you will eat no more of the blood of bulls or goats. ‘For the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord…’”
35. Proverbs 6:24-26 – Guard Yourself from an Adulteress
“To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress… do not let her eyelids lead you astray… For by means of a harlot, a man is reduced to a crust of bread.”
36. Malachi 3:5 – Purifying the Sons of Levi
“And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien—because they do not fear Me.”
37. Proverbs 30:18-20 – The Way of an Adulterous Woman
“There are three things which are too wonderful for me… the way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a virgin. This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done no wickedness.’
38. Jeremiah 5:7-8 – The Lord’s Judgment on Israel’s Adultery
“How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those that are not gods… They were like well-fed lusty stallions; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.”
39. Proverbs 7:6-27 – The Crafty Tactics of an Immoral Woman
“For at the window of my house I looked through… And there a woman met him, with the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart… With her enticing speech, she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him… he went after her as an ox goes to the slaughter.”
40. James 2:10 – Breaking One Commandment Makes You Guilty of All
“For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.”
