All kinds of sexual activity that God detests should be prohibited for God’s people. Jesus made it very clear that having lust in our hearts and committing adultery are both sins. Therefore, we shouldn’t do such a thing.
In times of judgement, the Lord will make them known since he sees into our hearts and has the capacity to read our minds and hearts. We should revere God and be afraid of him because of the good things he has done for us, not merely because of the judgement.
For us to enjoy communion with the Lord, our hearts must be pure and spotless. God rewards us and reveals his greatness to us when we submit to him and follow him obediently.
Let’s read and reflect on the following verses from the Bible, which serve as a warning concerning the repercussions of harbouring lust and adultery in our minds.
Exodus 20:14(KJV) Thou shalt not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 6:18(KJV) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Hebrews 13:4(KJV) Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 6:18(KJV) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Exodus 20:17(KJV) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Matthew 5:28(KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
2 Timothy 2:22(KJV) Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 John 2:16(KJV) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Colossians 3:5(KJV) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Corinthians 6:13(KJV) Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Matthew 5:32(KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Galatians 5:16(KJV) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Proverbs 6:25(KJV) Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Romans 13:14(KJV) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Peter 2:11(KJV) Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Matthew 15:19(KJV) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Deuteronomy 22:22(KJV) If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Leviticus 20:10(KJV) And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
1 Peter 4:3(KJV) For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
James 1:15(KJV) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Ephesians 5:3(KJV) But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 9:27(KJV) But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians 7:2(KJV) Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Matthew 5:27(KJV) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Proverbs 6:32(KJV) But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
