Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 18:20Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, nor be defiled with mingling of seed.
Numbers 5:12Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,
2 Samuel 11:4And David sent messengers, and took her, and she came in to him, and he slept with her: and presently she was purified from her uncleanness:
Proverbs 2:15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Proverbs 7:18Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
Jeremiah 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, 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 →