Definition

An adulterer is someone who commits adultery, someone who has an extramarital affair. (Also called a Libertine Cuckolded, bed hopper, and spouse swapper.) This person is acting immorally and out of the bounds of marriage and indulges in immoral sexual conduct.

Bible Statement

Adultery is a violation of the marriage contract through sexual intercourse with a third party. This sin is addressed by the wrath of God. While we are still present here on earth we will suffer the consequences. Sexual immorality is the only reason that God will allow divorce.

Scripture

Leviticus 20:10 should someone commits adultery with another’s spouse, one who commits adultery with his friend's spouse, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.

Matthew 5:27-28 we have heard that it was said, that we are not to commit adultery. 28 Jesus says to us everyone who looks on another with lust has already committed adultery in his or her hearts.

1st Corinthians 6:9-10 are we aware that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived the fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, or those imitators of the opposite sex, homosexuals, thieves, or those who desire that which belongs to others. Drunkards, revilers, swindlers, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:5-6 this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of them the wrath of God comes upon those who have embraced disobedience.

Hebrews 13:4 there must be honor in marriage among all, and let the bed remain undefiled; God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Acts 15:19-20 it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, but that we write to them that they must abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Revelation 21:7-8 "He who has withstood the on slot of Satan shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My child. on the contrary the cowardly and unbelieving, abominable, murderers, immoral persons sorcerers, idolaters and all liars, their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Acts 15:17-20 So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, along with all the Gentiles who are called by My name,' 18 Says the Lord, who makes things known from of old. 19 "Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, 20 but that we write to them that they refrain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Heb 13:4 there must be honor in marriage among all, and let the bed remain undefiled; God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Adulterous Relationships
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Job 24:15 the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, thinking one will not see him. And they find a hiding place so their piers will not find them out.

Malachi 2:16-17 the Lord, the God of Israel, says he hates divorce and unkind people. Therefore, control your intense emotions let there be no divorcing of your spouses. You have tried the patients of the Lord with your words. We have been exhausting to Him we ask in fake surprise. By saying that evil is good, that it pleases the Lord! Or by saying that God won't punish us-- He doesn't really care.

Matt 19:3-6 a few Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and saying, "Is it lawful to divorce a spouse for any reason at all? 4 He answered in addition, Have you not read, that He who created mankind from the beginning made them both male and female, also for this cause we shall leave our father and mother, and shall cleave to our spouse they shall become one flesh. Because of this they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no one divide them?

1st Corinthians 6:15-16 are you not aware that our bodies are members of the body of Christ? Shall I then use body parts of Christ and make them members of a harlot? May it never be? are we not aware that the one who joins him to a harlot is one body. For He says, the two will become one flesh.

Mark 10:11-12 He said to them, anyone who divorces their spouse and marries another commits adultery.

Matthew 5:32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces their spouse, except for the cause of sexual promiscuity. This divorce would make their spouse commit adultery and whoever marries a divorced person commits adultery.

Romans 13:13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not carousing and intoxicated, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in bitter conflict or rivalry and jealousy.

Matt 18:6 But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to become unsteady in their life. It would better for him that a heavy millstone is hung around their neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Luke 6:37-38 Do not judge then you will not be judged; do not condemn, unless you want to be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. 38 Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will pour into your lap. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.

1st Thessalonians 4:3 for this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you abstain from sexual immorality.

Comment

We can note throughout God’s love letters to us that should we sin in this particular way we sadden God. Marriage is a bond that God has created. Sex is part of what God has created for us. If we violate the marriage bed we can expect to pay the consequences for our actions. The consequences are so wide spread that it would be next to impossible to cover in this short of an article. Some are premature death, destruction of the mind of family members, disease, physical blindness, Loss of a belief system, mental illness of some of the family members and on and on the list goes.

When the separation takes place one of the married partners may not have the same ability to provide for the children or even them self. The destruction of the marriage union is far reaching to children and family.


It is the children that will carry most of the scars for years to come. They often think that they are not loved and or the split up is because of them. This stigma is something that may last for their entire life. The children should be taken aside to a private place where they can ask questions and they should be encouraged to do so. It may be impossible for them to think clear enough at this time because of the impact of the new discovery of the pending divorce. Their age is a factor too; if they are young then they do not even know what to ask. A child can see that their parents love each other, if so that is what gives them security. A child is the product of the parents they reflect what they see and hear.

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Jim Brown