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1. Adultery is being sexually involved with someone outside the
bonds of marriage. r=
Proverbs5:20 Why be captivated,my son, by an adulteress?Why
embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
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2. Lustful thinking-imagining what it would be like-is mental and
emotional adultery-sin.
Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman -=
lustfully has alreadycommitted adultery with her in his heart.
3. You must not take what belongs to another-another's mate. &;
Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You Ii:
shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your
neighbor. &:
1 Thessalonians 4:6 And that in this matter no one should wrong
his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men
for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.
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4. God commands: No adultery-it is his law.
Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
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5. Adultery, like all sin, separates us from God. Only Jesus Christ
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not
= inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the
sexuallyimmoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes
nor homosexualoffenders nor thievesnor the greedy nor drunkards
~ nor slanderers nor swindlerswill inherit the kingdom of God. And
that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were
sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
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6. Adultery is caused when a person's inner compass is not focused

on God.
:I Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evilthoughts, murder,
adultery, sexualimmorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
~ 7. Adultery is stopped by changing our mental view and seeing it from
God's view.

~ Romans 8:5-6 Those who live according to the sinful nature have
their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in
accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit
~ desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled
by the Spirit is life and peace.

:3 Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's

mercy,to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,holy and pleasing to I I
God-this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any
:. longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve

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what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.

8. God's wisdom-his Word-can save from adultery.

Proverbs 2:16-18 It will saveyou also from the adulteress, from
~ the waywardwifewith her seductivewords,who has left the partner
of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. For
her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the
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9. Adultery alwayshas great consequences leading to destruction.
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Proverbs 6:27-29, 32 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without
his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coalswithout his
feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished. . . . But a man who
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Proverbs 5:20-23 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Ie
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife? For a man's ways
are in full view of the LORD,and he examines all his paths. The
evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold Ii
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him fast. He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own
great folly.
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10. An individual has no right to separate what God has placed

together.
Mark 10:8-9 And the two will become one flesh. So they are no &J;
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longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let
man not separate.
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11. Steps for preventing adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to
his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does
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not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the
husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do
not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so
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that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again
so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-controL
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1Thessalonians 4:3-5 It is God's will that you should be sanctified:
that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should
learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, ;:
not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God.

12. Sex with your own spouse is to be desired

recreational.
and enjoyed; it is ;;:
Proverbs 5:15-19 Drink water from your own cistern, running
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streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be

== yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. May your fountain
be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving
doe, a graceful deer-may her breasts satisfy you always, may you
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