Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20You shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, nor shall you be defiled by the mingling of seed.
Numbers 5:12“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man whose wife will have gone astray, and, disdaining her husband,
2 Samuel 11:4And so, David sent messengers, and he took her. And when she had entered to him, he slept with her. And presently, she was purified from her uncleanness.
Proverbs 2:15Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
Proverbs 7:18Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.
Jeremiah 29:22And a curse will be taken up about them, by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying: ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire!’
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 →