“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” So thundered the voice of Yahweh from the smoking heights of Sinai—a commandment as ancient as Eden’s first union, and as vital today as in the days of Moses.

In this stirring teaching from God Honest Truth, we journey into the heart of the Seventh Commandment, uncovering the weight and wisdom behind these solemn words. Adultery is no mere lapse of passion; it is a breach of covenant, a wound upon the soul of marriage, and a corruption that ripples through families, communities, and nations.

Join us as we explore the biblical definition of adultery and its consequences. Learn how Yahweh views fidelity, purity, and covenant loyalty. Examine with us the scriptures that reveal both warning and mercy.

The world may shrug at faithfulness, but the Most High calls His people to walk in righteousness, guarding the sacred trust of the marriage bed. Let us stand firm in truth and honor, refusing to bend to the shifting morals of our age. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the seventh commandment.

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So this teaching is going to be all about the seventh commandment in our continuing series on the 10 commandments. And the seventh commandment is do not commit adultery. But before we get to that, we want to remind everyone real quick that if you would like more information than what you see here on your screen, if you’re watching on a video platform or if you like more than what you hear through your ears if you’re listening on an audio podcasting platform, then go to our website at godhonesttruth.com and click on the post for this particular episode. And there, you’ll be able to see the on demand video. You’ll be able to see the draw slides and go through those draw slides at your own pace.

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And it’s all right there with the simple and convenient link that we have provided for you in the description. And by the way, that should be down there whether you’re watching it on on a video platform or an audio podcasting platform. It should still be down there in the description all the same. So the seventh commandment. We have been through six so far, and tonight we get to the seventh.

And here is the listing of the King James rendering of the 10 Commandments. We’re all the way down to number seven. But the command itself for the Seventh Commandment is short and sweet and to the point. You do not commit adultery. Pretty straightforward.

Right? According to King James, thou shalt not commit adultery. So straightforward is a really short, really to the point kind of command. That’s going on here. But as we examined with the word worship, words tend to change meaning through time and through cultures and things like that.

So what does this word adultery mean and what did it mean back when this commandment was given that Mount Sinai? Well, let’s scripturally define adultery because we should always allow scripture to define what it is that we’re looking at and want to know. But according to the scriptural definition of adultery and some of you may have seen our adultery episode that we did a while back, big long episode all about adultery. But anyways, in a nutshell, adultery according to scripture is when a man has intercourse, sexual intercourse with a woman, a married woman, who is not his wife. So in other words, when a married woman has sex with a man who is not her husband.

And this generally hinges all around the status of the woman. We look at Leviticus chapter 20 verse 10. And a man who commits adultery with the wife of another man who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death. Proverbs chapter six verses 27 through 29. Would a man take fire to his bosom and his garments not be burned?

Would a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is he who goes into his neighbor’s wife. None who touches her goes unpunished. Here’s just a few examples, but there’s many, many more. You can go and see those in our notes that we’ve provided for you on our website.

But the scriptural understanding of what adultery is is when a man has sex with a wife who is not his wife with another man’s wife. So it all hinges around the marriage status of the woman in question. Now, no doubt, when is the man and the woman both are considered adulterers. So they’re both sinners. They’re both guilty of adultery.

But whether or not it’s adultery or just simple fornication, you might call it, all hinges on whether or not the woman is married and whether or not the man she’s having sex with is her husband or not. Look at some dictionary and encyclopedia and lexicon entries. Here we’ve got h two one eight one, the Hebrew word zana zana. And Strong’s definition defines this as adultery, obviously, but here it’s revolving around the status of the woman, usually of the female. It also goes on to define it as a figurative or metaphorical sense as adultery, but we’ll get into that in just a moment.

Brown Driver Briggs pretty much says the same thing. This word zana in Hebrew is adultery to act as a harlot, things like that. Jacintha is Hebrew. This is a pretty good quote here. One of the parts of the entry for Jacintha’s Hebrew is it says these words zanaan, or for adultery, is attributed properly and chiefly to a woman.

But, again, it revolves around the married status of the woman, not necessarily just all about the woman as far as the guilt goes. Does that make sense? Both the man and the woman are guilty, but in determining whether or not it’s adultery, it’s all regarding whether or not the woman is married. And then here’s the Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums. And once again, if you would like more of each of these entries, go look at the notes on our website for this particular episode because we had to cut all these down just a bit on the slide and for the sake of time.

And here’s another word that’s used in it pretty much means the same thing, but just wanna examine. This is the Hebrew word Ed Strong’s h 5,003 and the Hebrew word na’af na’af. And Strong’s definition here, and there at the end, even though it defines it as adultery or adulterer or adulteress, it defines it there at the end as a woman that breaketh wedlock. But, again, the whole concept is revolving around the married status of the woman in the situation that’s in question. Brown Driver Briggs.

Here, this one has a fairly interesting entry here. It says, yeah, it’s adultery. It defines it as adultery, but it has there as a subset saying usually of man always with wife of another. Bingo. Right there were really the point of what adultery is according to scripture.

Here’s the scene in this Hebrew lexicon, and it says that it’s to commit adultery, this na’ath, and it’s used both of male and female, but to commit adultery with a woman. Doesn’t go far enough in my opinion because if you look at the scriptures that we’ve already looked at, it’s always a woman who belongs to another man, who is the wife of another man. In Jack Sarrell’s dictionary of the Targums, this na f, to be unchaste, voluptuous, to have illicit intercourse, to commit adultery. And, of course, this also goes on into the New Testament, into the Greek as well. The Greek word here for adultery is going to be Strong’s g three four three one and that’s moy kiu.

Strong’s definition puts it plain and simple. To commit adultery, done. That’s all Strong says. But Thayers and others go more into the heart of how the Bible understands adultery. Thayers here has, on one part says, unlawful intercourse with another man’s wife.

And that is the whole crux of the issue as the it’s the married status of the woman. Here’s the Greek English lexicon of the New Testament, and here it defines this Greek word, moikio, as sexual intercourse of a man with a married woman other than his own spouse. Adultery was normally defined in terms of the married status of the woman involved. Sexual intercourse of either an unmarried or a married man with someone else’s wife was regarded as adultery. Now think of this.

This makes a lot of sense because you go throughout scripture and you see people we’ve covered this in our Polygyny series. Right? But you go throughout scripture and you see people, they’re getting married, and they’re not regarded as adulterers. They get married monogamously. They’re not regarded as adulterers.

They get married polygynously. They’re not regarded as adulterers. Take King David, for example. King David had several wives. And, in fact, scripture even tells us that it was Yahweh himself who gave David multiple wives.

So why was he not regarded as an adulterer or at least up until that point pre Bathsheba? Well, it’s because having more than one wife isn’t adultery. You can, you know, as long as you’re married to that woman, then it’s okay to have intimate relations with her. But when it comes to the wife of another man, that’s where the adultery part comes in and that’s where David got in trouble. And now you can really see the contrast between this and David’s life.

It was the intercourse, the intimate situation with Bathsheba, another man’s wife, that’s when David became an adulteress. Not with the multiple wives. It’s when he messed around with another man’s wife. We’ll get to that in just a moment. But just to take this point and wrap it up real quick, the scriptural definition and understanding of adultery is when a married woman has sex with a man who she is not married to.

Or to put it another way, it’s when a man has sex with a wife of another man. Make sense? So that’s that point. That’s the scriptural definition and understanding of adultery. And this is a horrible situation to be in because scripture throughout scripture defines marriage as a sacred covenant.

We look at the very beginning all the way back at Genesis chapter two verse 24. It says, for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. So when a man and a woman get married, they become one flesh. They become bonded in covenant. And this is actually symbolic of our relationship with Yahweh, but more on that later.

Looking at Mark chapter 10 verses six through nine. However, from the beginning of the creation, Elohim made them male and female. For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate. And finally, let’s look at Hebrews chapter 13 verse four.

Let marriage be respected by all and the bed be undefiled, but Elohim shall judge those who whore and adulterers. So you go horn around. You go around committing adultery. You are going to suffer that judgment by Yahweh. Well, Yeshua is going to be judging, but you get the point.

You’re going to be judged for that which you do. We all are. But make no mistake, those who whore, those who commit adultery are going to be judged. And marriage is not just a temporary thing. It’s not just a thing to take lightly.

And it’s not just merely a social contract, but it has bigger implications throughout the entire nation, throughout all of society. Because we’ve said this over and over again, it doesn’t matter what time period in history you look at. It doesn’t matter which part of the world you look at. It doesn’t even matter which culture you look at. Every single society, every single nation, that’s the basic building block is the family unit.

And once that family unit is destroyed, so goes the nation. Because you can’t have a building without the building blocks. You take out the blocks, the building falls down. So is society as a whole. And once the basic building block, the family breaks down, then goes to society.

And, of course, the basic building block of the family is going to be that marriage between the man and the wife. And there’s just so many bad things that go into adultery. I don’t wanna get into it right now, but, yeah, let’s let’s try to stick to scripture instead of getting off on tangents here. But this adultery between a man and a woman, the marriage contract, the covenant, the fidelity, the faithfulness is supposed to be there between a husband and a wife extends not just in the literal sense, but in a metaphorical sense, also between us and Yahweh. We look at Jeremiah chapter three verses eight through nine.

And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister, Yehudah, did not fear, but went and committed whoring too. And it came to be through her fear frivolous whoring that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood. So here you got Yahweh stating that he’s got two wives and it’s Israel and Yehudah. And, of course, this is after the split of the Northern and Southern Kingdom, obviously.

So he’s saying that Israel, the Northern Kingdom, committed adultery. Now it’s not a literal marriage between the Northern Kingdom and Yahweh. No. It’s all metaphorical. But so what does this adultery mean in context?

It’s referring to idolatry. They went after other gods. They went after these fake gods, these Chemosh, these Molech, things like that. So metaphorically speaking, he gave the Northern Kingdom, one of his wives, a certificate of divorce and sent them away. What does that mean in reality?

Well, we can see in scripture that the Northern Kingdom was taken captive by the Assyrians and spread throughout the nations, and they still have yet to return completely to the promised land. But then we go on in this passage, and we see that her treacherous sister, Yehudah, Yahweh’s second wife here in this metaphor, also committed adultery. In reality, she also committed adultery. So, yeah, this whole adultery thing is metaphorically speaking a way of symbolizing idolatry between the people and either false gods or their actual husband, metaphorically speaking, which is Yahweh. So in this context, adultery applies to us, and we should be faithful to our metaphorical husband.

And who is our metaphorical husband? It’s Yahweh. So going down to James chapter four verse four, adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim. If you’d like some more information on this whole metaphorical aspect of adultery and idolatry, I invite you to go back and look at that episode we did on adultery.

The standalone episode on adultery. And maybe I’ll go back and put that in the description down below once we get done. But, yeah, there’s a whole lot more there on that aspect of adultery being metaphorical speaking symbolically of the people’s interaction with Yahweh and false gods. But even Yeshua goes on in the Brit Chadashah to teach on adultery as well. We look in Matthew chapter five verses 27 through 28.

You heard that it was said to those of old, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Let me stop right here real quick. There’s a lot of confusion that goes on right here because in my opinion and the opinion of a lot of scholars, there’s a mistranslation here. And right here where Yeshua says, but I say to you that everyone looking at a woman and the way it’s translated like this in most translations, when it’s just translated as woman, you think that, well, a man that’s lusting after any generic woman, even unmarried, is committing adultery.

But that doesn’t stand up to the rest of scripture and how scripture understands adultery. No. This word here for woman in Greek is actually the Greek word, and can be translated in a number of ways. One of those can be just generic woman, married or unmarried, but the other way it can be translated is wife, meaning married woman. So in context, Yeshua is actually teaching on adultery here.

And if we understand how the rest of scripture understands adultery, which is the married status of the woman, I e, the woman being married, you would understand that a more correct translation would go such as, but I say to you that everyone looking at a woman I’m sorry. But I say to you that everyone looking at a wife or another man’s wife who lusts after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. And once again, if you’d like more information on that particular verse and that translation issue, go look at our adultery episode or go back and look at our episode that we did during our polygyny series as well. Anyways, moving on to Matthew chapter 15 verses 18 through 19. But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and those and these defile the man.

For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whoring, thefts, false witnessings, slanders. So here, Yeshua lists out a whole litany of horrid sins. Right? One of those is adultery, which our seventh commandment that we’re looking at tonight is do not commit adultery. But anyways, in this list of things, including adultery that Yeshua list out, he says that these things come from the heart, The source of it.

When you get the idea in your head to commit adultery, when you start planning it and thinking about it and fantasizing about it, it all comes from your heart and then eventually, I guess you would say metastasizes. I’m not a doctor, but anyways anyways, it comes to fruition in a physical act, but the origination was in the heart. And that’s what Yeshua is getting at here. So once you control your heart, once you get your inner workings, inner thinkings corrected, you have no fear of committing such grievous sins. But that’s where it comes from, so says our master and messiah, Yeshua.

And once again, Mark chapter seven verses 20 through 23. And he said, what comes out of a man that defiles a man? For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, whorings, murders, thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these wicked matters come from within and defile a man. So once again, Yeshua is teaching that all these things, they originate and come from the thinking and the inner workings of a person’s heart.

And going back and looking at this, we saw how adultery is defined by scripture. We saw that adultery is a grievous sin not only against your spouse but also against Yahweh and how adultery is metaphorically used to symbolize idolatry, things like that. And here Yeshua is teaching that adultery and things like adultery and other grievous sins come from the heart. And this is all refers back to a matter of purity because when your heart is impure, you do impure things like adultery, and that makes you impure. And Yahweh’s people are to be a pure and undefiled people.

We look at first Corinthians chapter six verses 18 through 20. Flee whoring. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits whoring sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the dwelling place of the set apart spirit that is in you, which you have from Elohim, and you are not your own? For you were brought you were bought with a price.

Therefore, esteem Elohim in your body and in your spirit, which are of Elohim. So whoring, adultery, I repeat, but I repeat myself. Anyways, whoring and adultery, these are things that defile your body. And as we all know all too well, we’ve heard it time and time again, this verse and this concept, your body is the temple or the dwelling place or the sanctuary of the set apart spirit. So keep your body pure and undefiled.

Keep your body away from adultery, committing adultery. You may not understand how it defiles you. You don’t have to understand. Yahweh says don’t do it, so don’t do it. That’s it.

Because it defiles you. And it destroys families. It destroys society. It messes people up emotionally and mentally. Just don’t do it.

Once again, Yahweh’s people are to be pure and undefiled. Ephesians chapter five verse three. But whoring and un all uncleanness or greed of gain, let it not even be named among you as is proper among set apart ones. Now here in the letter to Ephesus, the apostle Paul is writing and telling him that such horrid and grievous things, don’t even let them be named among you. Be so pure and undefiled that people wouldn’t even falsely accuse you of such things.

I know of one particular church in the area here. I think it’s a a Baptist church, but I don’t wanna say for sure. But anyways, the the pastor who was married to one woman had an affair with a woman in his congregation who was married to another man. This came to light as these things tend to do. And for whatever reason, the pastor’s wife, she decided to work it out and forgive him, move on.

Okay. Good on her. But the bad part is the congregation kept him. That is something that Paul is saying, let such things not even be named among you. This is it’s such a horrible thing.

If your congregation has a pastor who screws up like that, hey, forgiveness is there. We’re gonna get to that and here next. Mercy is there. But as far as a teaching position goes or as a leadership position goes, that’s gone at that point. Does anyone in that kind of position know better?

That’s like day one, page one kind of stuff. Okay. I’m about to get on a tangent. Anyways, moving on. Yahweh’s people are to be pure and undefiled and spotless before Yahweh.

Another verse here, first Thessalonians chapter four verses three through five. For this is the the desire of Elohim, your set apartness, that you should abstain from whoring. That each of you should know how to possess his own vessel and set apartness and respect, not in passion of lust, like the nations who do not know Elohim. Time and time again, we see all throughout scripture how the nations and those who are not Yahweh’s people, they’re doing all these things like orgies and adulteries and things like that. These are the people who do not know Elohim, who don’t do not know God.

They do stuff like worship false gods. In addition to all these sexual things, they do things like eat pork. So what commandments are we actually following? What set of instructions or Torah are we actually following? Are we doing that which is of the world, which includes things like adultery and etcetera etcetera?

Or are we doing the things and commandments and instructions and the Torah of Yahweh, which says no pork, no whoring, no adultery, things like that? Yeshua himself said, you shall know them by their fruit. Are you producing the fruit of the nations, or are you producing the fruit of Yahweh and of the Torah? But even though we talked about David earlier, and we talked about the church here in the area and stuff like that. And even though some people commit grievous, absolutely horrid and grievous sins like adultery, There is still mercy and forgiveness available for such people.

Let’s look at second Samuel chapter 12 verses nine and thirteen. Why have you despised the word of Yahweh to do evil in his eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword and his wife you took to be your wife, and you have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon. And Dawid said to Nathan, I have sinned against Yahweh. And Nathan said to Dawid, also Yahweh has put away your sin.

You shall not die. Now, this is absolutely powerful. Our whole subject tonight is the Seventh Commandment. It’s a episode, a commandment within the 10 Commandments. And each of these 10 Commandments, if you go back and look at them, the punishment for idolatry, the first and second commandments.

Punishment for idolatry is what? It’s death. The punishment for breaking Shabbat, if you go back and look at it, it was what? It was death. We go back and look at the punishment for murder, which we looked at last, episode.

Punishment for murder is what? Death. And the punishment here, if we’re looking at is for adultery is what? It’s death. These are all extremely serious.

They’re all on the same level with Shabbat and idolatry and adultery and murder and etcetera, etcetera. So these are horrible, grievous sins. But someone like Dawid, who was described as, you know, being after God’s own heart, He committed adultery and murder. Nathan, the prophet Nathan, is bringing it up to him. He’s exposing these sins that David tried to hide.

And when Nathan exposes these sins, David repents. He humbles himself. His heart melts away, and he understands how horrid he’s been to sins that he’s committed, even more fully than I think he did before. But he repents. And he says here now, one just thinking of ourselves.

He committed sin against Bathsheba. She was probably a willing participant because he was the king after all. Right? But I’m not gonna say whether she was or not. Anyways, he committed sin against Bathsheba.

He also committed sin against Uriah. Obviously, he took his Uriah’s wife, and David had him killed. So obviously, he sinned against Uriah, but he couldn’t get forgiveness from Uriah because he was dead at that point. But Yahweh wasn’t married to Bathsheba. Yahweh wasn’t murdered.

But still, David says to Nathan that I have sinned against Yahweh. So this adultery goes farther than just the spouse. It extends farther. It extends all the way up to Yahweh, but it extends to your family, your children, your society, things like that. But the important part here that we want to get to at this point in the teaching is that there is mercy and forgiveness available.

And when David humbled himself, when he realized his sin and repented. What did Nathan say? Nathan said, also Yahweh has put away your sin. You shall not die. I mean, how awesome is that?

A murderer and adulterer who repented had his sins forgiven. We look at Psalms chapter 32 verses one and five. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. I acknowledge my sin to you, and my crookedness I did not hide. I have said, I confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the crookedness of my sin.

Selah. Guess who wrote Psalm chapter 32? King David. Because after this whole Bathsheba and Uriah thing. And he says, blessed is is he whose transgression is forgiven.

I confess my transgressions, and you forgave the crookedness of my sin. David probably had a lot of sins like we all do, but the two sins that he’s most notable for is the sin of adultery and murder. And even those two grievous, horrid sins were forgiven by Yahweh. Also, looking at John chapter eight, verses three through 11, we go on to the New Testament, the Brit Chadashah, the renewed covenant, whatever you want to say it. Even Yeshua and the apostles teach the same thing, that just forgiveness even for such heinous, grievous sins like adultery.

John chapter eight verses three through 11. And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And Yeshua straightening up and seeing no one but the woman said to her, woman, where are those accusers of yours? Did no one condemn you? And she said, no one, master.

And Yeshua said to her, neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more. So this woman who was caught in adultery, her sins were forgiven. Notice an important part here that Yeshua tells her. He says, go and sin no more.

If you commit adultery and then you say, oh, I’m sorry. I won’t do it again. I’m sorry. Sorry. Forgive me.

And then turn right around. Do it again. Then we know exactly where your heart is. We know that you weren’t repented. And without repentance, there is no forgiveness of sins.

Without the shedding of blood, there’s no forgiveness of sins, etcetera, etcetera. But you have to be repentant and turn away from your sins. What good is it gonna do to repent and not actually or to claim repentance and not actually repent? It does absolutely zero good. Here, Yeshua is telling her the key.

Go and sin no more. Repent and sin no more. First Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13. No trial has overtaken you except such as as common to man, And Elohim is trustworthy, who shall not allow you to be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial shall also make the way of escape, enabling you to bear it. So there’s temptations.

Temptations a plenty nowadays. Sexual temptations a plenty nowadays even with married women. Oh my gosh. To tell you some of the stories. But these are trials.

These are temptations, and there is no trial or temptation that can overtake you that is not common to man and that Yahweh will not give you a way to overcome it. You can’t overcome it. You can’t blame your sin or your shortcomings on anyone else except you. Can’t blame it on the devil. Can’t blame on anyone but you.

And you can overcome it. Let’s face facts. If you don’t overcome it, it’s because you chose not to. Revelation chapter one verse five. And from Yeshua Messiah, the trustworthy witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the sovereigns of the earth, to him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.

Once again, just to reiterate this point and really drive it home, if you have committed adultery or even like David committed murder, these grievous sins like adultery, there is forgiveness and mercy available. But you have to be truly repentant and turn away from your sins and not go on committing such sins. You have to stop it, ask for and seek forgiveness. You can’t just keep on going in it, but you can be forgiven of these sins. As we go throughout scripture, it releases the way I and others read it.

There’s only one unforgivable sin, and that unforgivable sin isn’t adultery. So, if you’re an adulterer or if you’re an adulteress, there is mercy and forgiveness available. So, just to wrap this up and keep it short and sweet, in summary, the seventh commandment states, do not commit adultery or thou shalt not commit adultery. As scripture defines it and understands it, adultery is sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man other than her husband or to put it another way, sexual intercourse between a man and a married woman that he is not married to. Marriage is a lifelong sacred covenant between a man and a woman.

The only justifiable reason for divorce didact didactically speaking anyways, is adultery. Other than that, you’ve got financial issues, deal with it. Push through it. Go on. You’ve got job hardships.

Hey, deal with it. Push through it. Go on. Stay together. That’s not a cause for divorce.

But marriage is supposed to be a lifelong and sacred covenant between a man and a woman. Scripture commonly uses adultery or the concept of adultery as a metaphor for idolatry between the people and Yahweh. Yeshua also taught us that even lusting after a married woman is adultery. You don’t even have to do the physical act. The just physical or I’m sorry, the mental lusting after a married woman, Yeshua said, is adultery.

And evil such as adultery come from within, from the heart. That all originates there in the heart and you’re thinking, that’s thinking thinking, and eventually comes to fruition of the act, such as adultery. So all these things come from the heart. Yahweh’s people are to be pure and undefiled as we saw from that passage in that scripture and we all well know our bodies are the temple, the holy place, the sanctuary of the set apart spirit. So as such, we should be pure and undefiled and keep ourselves from grievous things like adultery.

And finally, just wrap up, there is forgiveness and mercy even for such a grievous sin like adultery. And, that’s just the God honest truth.