Exodus 20:14
Do not be false to the married relation.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
In Context
13Do not put anyone to death without cause.
15Do not take the property of another.
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.
Numbers 5:12Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him
2 Samuel 11:4And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
Proverbs 2:15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Proverbs 7:18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
Jeremiah 29:22And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:13-18
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly… Read the whole commentary →