O adultério
O adultério é pecado grave que destrói alianças, famílias e vidas. A Bíblia condena firmemente a infidelidade conjugal e chama à pureza, fidelidade e santidade no casamento.
A lei de Deus
Não adulterarás. Quem comete adultério destrói a própria alma. A Palavra de Deus é clara e direta sobre este pecado.
Do not ◄commit adultery/have sex with anyone other than your spouse►.
‘If a man commits adultery with some other man’s wife, both of them, the man and the woman, must be executed.
"Do not ◄defile yourself/make yourself unacceptable to me► by having sex with someone else’s wife.
But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish,
because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish,
because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.
That woman’s husband will wound him badly,
and other people will despise him.
His shame will never end.
Because that woman’s husband will ◄be jealous/not want anyone else to sleep with her►, he will become furious,
and when he gets revenge, he will not act mercifully toward the man who slept with his wife.
And he will not accept any bribe/money, even if it is a big bribe, to ◄appease him/cause him to stop being angry►.
Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned [RHQ]?
Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your feet?
No! And in the same way, anyone who ◄sleeps with/has sex with► another man’s wife will suffer for doing that.
He will certainly [LIT] be punished severely.
Jesus ensina
Quem olhar para uma mulher com intenção impura já adulterou no coração. Jesus elevou o padrão da pureza.
"You have heard God’s commandment, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But what I say to you is this: If a man only looks at a woman desiring to have sex with her, God considers that his doing that [MET] is sin.
But now listen to what I say to you: A man may divorce his wife only if she has committed adultery, and not for any other reason. If a man divorces his wife for any other reason, and he has sex with another woman, he makes his wife become one against whom he has committed adultery, because in God’s estimation she still is his wife. Also, if a man marries a woman who is divorced {whose husband has divorced her}, God considers him guilty of committing adultery."
It is people’s innermost beings that cause them to think things that are evil, to murder people, to commit adultery, to commit other sexual sins, to steal things, to testify falsely, and to speak evil about others.
He said to them, "God considers that a marriage lasts until either the husband or the wife dies, so he considers that any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman is committing adultery, even if he divorces his first wife. God also considers a woman who divorces her first husband to be committing adultery if she marries another man."
For example, because God considers that a marriage lasts until either the husband or the wife dies, he considers that any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman is committing adultery. He also considers that any man who marries a woman who has been divorced by her husband {whose husband has divorced her} is also committing adultery."
Then they said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was seized {we seized this woman} while she was having sex with a man who is not her husband. Moses commanded us in the laws that he gave us that we should throw stones at such women and kill them. So what do you say we should do?" They asked this question as a trap so that they could accuse him. If he said that they should not kill her, they would shame him for disobeying the law of Moses. If he said that they should kill her, they could accuse him to the Roman governor.
But Jesus bent down and wrote something on the ground with his finger. While they continued to question him, he stood up and said to them, "Whichever one of you has never sinned can be the first one to start throwing stones at her." Then he stooped down and wrote some more on the ground. After they heard what he said, those who were questioning him went away, one by one, the older ones first and then the younger ones, knowing they were all sinners. Finally only Jesus was there, along with the woman. Jesus stood up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one said you must die for your sin?" She said, "No, sir, no one." Then Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go home now, and do not continue your sinful life any longer!"]
Armadilhas e consequências
Os lábios da mulher estranha destilam mel, mas o seu fim é amargo. Fuja da imoralidade — o adultério escraviza.
What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,
and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,
but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall
and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are.
Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life.
She walks down a crooked path,
and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.
What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,
and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,
but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall
and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.
If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are.
Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life.
She walks down a crooked path,
and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.
So now, my sons, listen to me.
◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.
Run away from immoral women!
Do not go near the doors of their houses!
If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation►
and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you;
he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!
Run away from immoral women!
Do not go near the doors of their houses!
If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation►
and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you;
he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!
Foreigners will take your money,
and all the good things that you have worked for will ◄end up in their hands/become their possessions►.
And when you are about to die,
you will groan with severe pain
because diseases that you have gotten from being immoral will be destroying your body.
Then you will say, "I hated it when people tried to correct me.
I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.
I did not heed what my teachers said!
I paid no attention to those who tried to teach me something about my behavior.
Now I am almost ruined,
and I will be disgraced in public gatherings."
She is as pretty and graceful as a young female deer.
Allow her breasts to always satisfy you.
Allow her lovemaking to excite you.
My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman!
Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!
If you go into houses of women who are like that,
you will die when you are still young;
the road to their houses leads to hell.
No man who ◄visits/sleeps with► a woman like that will again live harmoniously with his family.
He will never have a happy life again.
What ◄wives who commit adultery/immoral women► say to men [MTY] is like a deep pit [MET] into which those men fall;
those with whom Yahweh is angry will fall into that pit.
Always ◄run away from/avoid► committing sexually immoral acts. Other sins that people commit do not affect their bodies, but those who commit sexually immoral acts sin against their own bodies.
So I tell you this: Constantly let God’s Spirit direct you. If you do that, you will certainly not do the things that your self-directed nature wants you to do. Your self-directed nature ◄opposes God’s Spirit/does not want you to do what God’s Spirit wants you to do►, but also his Spirit opposes your self-directed nature. These two are always ◄fighting with/opposing► each other. The result is that you do not constantly do the good deeds that you truly desire to do.
You already know how people think and act [PRS] because of their self-directed nature. These are some of the things that they do: People are sexually immoral. People commit unnatural sexual acts. People act indecently. People worship false gods and things that represent those gods. People perform ◄rituals in order that evil spirits might act for them/sorcery►. People are hostile to others. People quarrel with each other. People are ◄jealous/resent other people’s status►. People behave angrily. People try ◄to get others to think highly of them/to exalt themselves► and ◄do not consider what others want/act selfishly►. People do not associate with others. People associate only with those who agree with them. People want what others have. People get drunk. People ◄revel/participate in wild parties►. And people do other things like these. I warn you now, just like I warned you previously, that the ones who constantly act and think like that will not receive what God has for his own people when he begins to rule over us.
You must ◄respect/keep sacred► the marriage relationship in every way, and you must keep sexual relations [EUP] pure, because God will surely condemn those who act immorally and those who act adulterously.
God wants you to live pure lives that will show that you completely belong to him. He wants you to avoid doing any sexually immoral acts (OR, avoid being sexually immoral in any way). That is, he wants each one of you to know how to control your own sexual desires [EUP]. He wants you to live pure lives that all people will see as good. You must not lustfully desire to do immoral acts as unbelievers [MTY] do who do not obey God.
Like a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him any more [MET]. Those who are behaving as evil people do [MTY] (OR, Those who love the evil pleasures of this world) are hostile toward God. Perhaps you do not realize that [RHQ]. So those who decide to act as evil people do [MTY] become enemies of God.
Although I gave her time to stop her sexual immorality and pagan practices, she did not want to stop doing them. As a result, I will cause her to become very ill [MTY]. I will also cause those who act immorally as she does [MET] to suffer greatly, if they do not stop doing what she does.