What is meant by adultery?
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What is meant by adultery?
Adultery is a consensual sexual relationship or encounter between someone who’s married and a person they’re not married to (who may or may not be married to someone else). In other words, it can be between two people who are both married to other people, or between a married person and a nonmarried person.
What does Matthew 5 29 mean?
The Greek is literally “causes you to stumble,” but stumble is a common metaphor for sin and some versions translate it this way for greater clarity. Where normally eyesight is what prevents one from stumbling, Jesus here states that eyesight should be sacrificed to prevent the greater stumbling of sin.
Where in the Bible is the story of the woman caught in adultery?
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (often called Pericope Adulterae for short) is a passage (pericope) found in the Gospel of John 7:53–8:11, that has been the subject of much scholarly discussion.
Why is adultery a sin?
Adultery is viewed not only as a sin between an individual and God but as an injustice that reverberates through society by harming its fundamental unit, the family: Adultery is an injustice. He who commits adultery fails in his commitment.
What is the punishment for adultery in Christianity?
Leviticus 20:10 subsequently prescribes capital punishment for adultery, but refers to adultery between a man and a married woman: 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.
