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.
Thou shalt not do lechery.
If a man doeth lechery with another man’s wife, and doeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress die they by death.
Thou shalt not do lechery with thy neighbour’s wife, neither thou shalt be defouled with meddling [or mingling together] of seed.
But he that is an adulterer, shall lose his soul, for the poverty of heart, that is, wanting of reason.
But he that is an adulterer, shall lose his soul, for the poverty of heart, that is, wanting of reason.
He gathereth filth, and scandal to himself; and his shame shall not be done away.
For the fervent love and strong vengeance of the man shall not spare in the day of vengeance,
neither shall assent to the prayers of any; neither he shall take many gifts for ransom.
Whether a man may hide fire in his bosom, that his clothes burn not;
either go on coals, and his feet be not burnt?
So he that entereth to the wife of his neighbour; shall not be clean, when he hath touched her.
Jesus ensina
Quem olhar para uma mulher com intenção impura já adulterou no coração. Jesus elevou o padrão da pureza.
Ye have heard that it was said to old men, Thou shalt not do lechery.
But I say to you, that every man that seeth a woman [for] to covet her, hath now done lechery by her in his heart.
But I say to you, that every man that leaveth his wife, except [the] cause of fornication, maketh her to do lechery, and he that weddeth the forsaken wife, doeth adultery.
For of the heart go out evil thoughts [or For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts], manslayings, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies.
And he said to them, Whoever leaveth his wife, and weddeth another, he doeth adultery on her.
And if the wife leave her husband, and be wedded to another, she doeth lechery [or doeth adultery].
Every man that forsaketh his wife, and weddeth another, doeth lechery [or adultery]; and he that weddeth the wife forsaken of the husband, doeth adultery.
and said to him, Master, this woman is now taken in adultery.
And in the law Moses commanded us to stone such; therefore what sayest thou?
And they said this thing tempting him, that they might accuse him. And Jesus bowed himself down, and wrote with his finger in the earth.
And when they abided [or con-tinued] asking him, he raised himself, and said to them, He of you that is without sin, first cast a stone into her.
And again he bowed [down] himself, and wrote in the earth.
And they hearing these things, went away one after another, and they began from the elder men; and Jesus dwelt alone, and the woman standing in the middle.
And Jesus raised himself, and said to her, Woman, where be they that accused thee? no man hath con-demned thee.
She said, No man, Lord. Jesus said to her, Neither I shall condemn thee; go thou, and now afterward do not thou sin more [or do not thou do sin].
Armadilhas e consequências
Os lábios da mulher estranha destilam mel, mas o seu fim é amargo. Fuja da imoralidade — o adultério escraviza.
Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;
but the last things [of her]be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.
Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells [or to hell].
Those [or they] go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.
Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;
but the last things [of her]be bitter as wormwood, and her tongue is sharp as a sword carving, or cutting, on each side.
Her feet go down into death; and her steps pierce to hells [or to hell].
Those [or they] go not by the path of life; her steps be uncertain, and may not be sought out.
Now therefore, my son, hear thou me, and go thou not away from the words of my mouth.
Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;
and thou bewail in the last days, when thou hast wasted thy flesh, and thy body;
and say, Why loathed I teaching, and mine heart assented not to blamings;
neither I heard the voice of men teaching me, and I bowed not down mine ear to masters?
Almost I was in all-evil, in the midst of the church, and of the synagogue.
An hind most dearworthy; and an hart calf most acceptable. Her teats fill thee in all time; and delight thou continually in the love of her.
My son, why art thou deceived of an alien woman; and art fostered in the bosom of another?
For the house of her is bowed to death, and her paths to hell.
All that enter to her, shall not turn again, neither they shall catch the paths of life.
The mouth of an alien woman is a deep ditch; he to whom the Lord is wroth shall fall into it.
Flee ye fornication; all sin what-ever sin a man doeth, is without the body; but he that doeth fornication, sinneth against his body.
And I say to you in Christ, walk ye in Spirit, and ye shall not perform the desires of the flesh.
For the flesh coveteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these be adversaries together, that ye do not all things that ye will.
And the works of the flesh be open, which be fornication, unclean-ness, unchastity, lechery,
service of false gods [or serving of idols], witchcrafts, enmities, strivings [or strives], indignations, wraths, chidings, dissensions, sects [or heresies],
envies, manslayings, drunkennesses, unmeasurable eatings [or gluttonies], and things like to these, which I say to you before, as I have told to you before, for they that do such things, shall not have the kingdom of God.
Wedding is in all things honourable, and bed unwemmed [or undefouled]; for God shall deem fornicators and adulterers.
For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.
Adulterers, know not ye, that the friendship of this world is enemy [or enmity] to God? Therefore whoever will be the friend of this world, is made the enemy of God.
And I gave to her time, that she should do penance, and she would not do penance of her fornication.
And lo! I send her into a bed, and they that do lechery with her shall be in most tribulation, but they do penance of her works.