Job 31:11

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Summary

Job 31:11

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

An heinous

Proverbs 6:29

An iniquity

Ezekiel 16:38

General references

Proverbs 6:27

Bible References

An heinous

Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Do not be false to the married relation.

So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

An iniquity

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

General references

May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?