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Adultery

What Does It Mean to Commit Adultery in Your Heart? — Matthew 5:27-28

By BCL / April 10, 2025

Why does the Seventh Commandment, “‘You shall not commit adultery'” (Ex. 20:14), encompass more than the physical act of adultery?

Is It True That You Can’t Help Falling in Love with Someone?

By Campbell Markham / March 6, 2024

The idea that we are helpless victims of love is a very ancient one. How should we respond when our passions, desires, and instincts urge us to have sexual intimacy with someone if the Bible forbids it?

The Forbidden Woman: Some Thoughts on Love, Marriage, and Adultery

By Chris Gordon / July 11, 2023

Adultery is the ultimate act of betrayal in the great design of marriage that intends for us to love the spouse that we are joined to by God himself. Proverbs 5 provides us with great insight into the pathway of adultery.

All Sins Are Not Alike: Sexual Immorality, Chastity, and Wisdom

By R. Scott Clark / July 25, 2018

Because of the sexual revolution, we hardly know what chastity is any more. In some circles it has become axiomatic that sexual sins are no worse and no different from any other sins. What are the two classes of sin, and why is it important for Christians to recognize the difference?