Protecting Your Marriage

I. The Seventh Commandment

Exodus 20:14 “You shall not commit adultery.”

Romans 13:9 “For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”


          A. The Problem – Sexual Sin

                  1. Adultery Can Be Defined as Marital Infidelity

                  2. The Broader Greek Word for Sexual Immorality is ‘Porneia’

Leviticus 18:20 “And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.”

Ephesians 5:3-4 “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”


            B. How Seriously Does God Take This Sin?

Leviticus 20:10 “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 22:22 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.”


            C. Why It Matters

                  1. Adultery’s Effect on