having an affair
What does the Bible say about having an affair? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
32But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul.
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
29So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.
16Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be saved. For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things.
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;
9And I say to you, that whoever will have separated from his wife, except because of fornication, and who will have married another, commits adultery, and whoever will have married her who has been separated, commits adultery.”
28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
11And he said to them: “Whoever dismisses his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 12And if a wife dismisses her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery.”