What Is Adultery?

Matthew 5:27-28

“Adultery is ALL touching – mental or physical — outside of God’s covenant with your spouse.”

— Holy Spirit, September 2022.

This adultery refers to the human body.

Matthew 7: 27 — Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

James 4:1-10

 

“Adultery is (also) ALL breaking faith and covenant with God in your attitudes toward Him after He has received you as His own through Jesus Christ, to lust after a life outside of His ways.”

— Lord Jesus Christ, September 2022

 

This adultery refers to doctrines, teachings and conducts in the way you think. It is “spiritual adultery” vs. bodily.

James 4:1-10

1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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This scripture message from the Lord Jesus Christ instructs us that all adultery (mental, physical, or spiritual) comes from an evil heart of pride in oneself.