Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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Bible References

So then

Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 20:10
‘The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.
Numbers 5:13
and a man is intimate with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and it is kept secret, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,
Deuteronomy 22:22
“If a man is intimate with a woman who is another man’s wife, they shall both be put to death, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
Matthew 5:32
but I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on grounds of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced commits adultery.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
John 8:3
Now the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They made her stand in the center of the court,

Though

Ruth 2:13
Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not as one of your maidservants.”
1 Samuel 25:39
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach [suffered] at the hand of Nabal and has kept His servant from [retaliating with] evil. For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, proposing to take her as his wife.
1 Timothy 5:11
But refuse [to enroll the] younger widows, for when they feel their natural desires in disregard of Christ, they wish to marry again,

General references

Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.
Mark 10:9
Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce].”