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"You shall not commit adultery.
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More Than Just Adultery
Commentators unanimously agree this command covers more than its literal wording. Scholars like Calvin and Gill explain that by forbidding the specific sin of adultery, God is condemning all forms of sexual immorality. This includes fornication, lust, obscene words, and any sexual expression outside of the covenant of marriage.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the Ten Commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; and Deuter…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall not commit adultery. —Next to the duty of respecting a man’s life is placed that of respecting his domestic pea…
Baptist
These commandments take a far wider sweep than the mere words. Thou shalt not kill includes the doing of anything by which life may be sho…
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16th Century
Protestant
Although only one kind of impurity is specifically referred to, it is sufficiently clear from the principle laid down that believers are generally …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thou shall not commit adultery , ] Which, strictly speaking, is only that sin which is committed with another man's wife, as J…
The laws of the Second Table, that is, the last six of the Ten Commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great …
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