Trust matters in relationships, yet people often face temptation and moral challenges.

However, the Bible offers clear guidance about honesty, loyalty, and faithfulness in your connections with others.

When someone breaks trust through unfaithfulness, both parties experience deep pain and confusion. So, finding direction during these difficult times can feel a lot.

This collection of Bible verses provides wisdom and comfort for those dealing with betrayal, seeking forgiveness, or working to rebuild damaged relationships.

Let’s explore how this will help you understand God’s perspective on integrity and faithful relationships.

Bible Verses that Address Cheating

1. Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.”
2. Leviticus 20:10 – “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.”
3. Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
4. Matthew 19:9 – “I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
5. Proverbs 6:32 – “But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.”
6. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers… will inherit the kingdom of God.”
7. Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
8. Romans 13:9 – “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: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
9. Proverbs 5:3-4 – “For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.”
10. 1 Corinthians 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.”
11. James 4:4 – “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
12. Proverbs 6:26 – “For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.”
13. Malachi 2:16 – “The man who hates and divorces his wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty.
14. 1 Thessalonians 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 your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God.”
15. Matthew 5:32 – “But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress; and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
16. Ephesians 5:3 – “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”
17. Luke 16:18 – “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”
18. Matthew 18:8-9 – “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire.”
19. Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
20. Proverbs 2:16-17 – “Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.”
21. Proverbs 7:25-27 – “Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. For many a victim she has laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.”
22. Hosea 3:1 – “The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods.’”
23. Jeremiah 3:8 – “I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.”
24. Matthew 26:41 – “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
25. John 8:4-5 – “They said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’”
26. 1 John 2:16 – “For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”
27. Proverbs 9:17-18 – “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious! But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.”
28. Isaiah 57:3-5 – “But you—come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?”
29. Proverbs 5:20 – “Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man’s wife?”
30. Matthew 12:39 – “He answered, ‘A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.’”
31. Mark 10:11-12 – “He answered, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.’”
32. 1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”
33. Romans 7:2-3 – “For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.”
34. 2 Samuel 12:9 – “Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.”
35. Mark 7:21-23 – “For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
36. Jeremiah 3:6-10 – “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me, but she did not.”
37. Ezekiel 16:32 – “You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!”
38. Proverbs 5:15-18 – “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.”
39. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 – “And that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.”
40. Deuteronomy 22:22 – “If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.”
41. Ezekiel 23:37 – “For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.”
42. Revelation 2:22 – “So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.”
43. Romans 13:13 – “Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.”
44. Deuteronomy 5:18 – “You shall not commit adultery.”
45. Jeremiah 5:7 – “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.”
46. Proverbs 2:16-19 – “Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, 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 dead.”
47. Isaiah 57:7 – “You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.”
48. Proverbs 7:4-5 – “Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and to insight, ‘You are my relative.’ They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.”

    

49. Luke 18:11-12 – “The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’”
50. Proverbs 6:23-24 – “For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.”
51. Hosea 4:2 – “There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.”
52. 1 Corinthians 7:10-11 – “To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife”.
53. 2 Samuel 11:2-5 – “One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, ‘She is Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah.’ Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her.”
54. Matthew 15:19 – “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.”
55. Proverbs 9:13-18 – “The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way.”
56. Hosea 2:2 – “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.”
57. Psalm 101:3 – “I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.”
58. Jeremiah 3:6-8 – “During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, ‘Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me, but she did not.'”
59. Matthew 26:48-49 – “Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: ‘The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.’ Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, ‘Greetings, Rabbi!’ and kissed him.”
60. Proverbs 6:29 – “So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.”
61. 1 Corinthians 7:5 – “Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so 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.”
62. Genesis 39:7-9 – “And after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, ‘Come to bed with me!’ But he refused. ‘With me in charge, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.'”
63. Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?'”
64. Ezekiel 16:35-36 – “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers, and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them.’”
65. Deuteronomy 22:23-24 – “If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death. The young woman because she did not scream for help, though she was in a town, and the man because he violated another man’s wife.”
66. Matthew 24:48-50 – “But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.”
67. Luke 12:46-47 – “The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.”
68. Hosea 9:1 – “Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations, for you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.”
69. Jeremiah 3:9 – “So that the land has been defiled by their adulteries and wickedness; so that the land is like a barren wilderness, where no one lives and no one even travels through.”
70. Proverbs 5:7-14 – “Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say. Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel.”
71. Luke 16:9 – “I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”
72. Ezekiel 23:45-46 – “But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.”
73. 2 Samuel 12:11-12 – “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.'”
74. Proverbs 5:21-23 – “For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths. The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sin hold them fast. For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.”
75. Ezekiel 16:41 – “They will burn your houses and remove the smell of your incense from the ground, and they will leave you naked and ashamed. I will bring your deeds to the public eye.”
76. Proverbs 7:21-23 – “With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk. All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer stepping into a noose till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.”
77. James 1:14-15 – “But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”
78. Revelation 22:15 – “Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
79. Jeremiah 3:20 – “But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.
80. Psalm 50:18 – “When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.”
81. 1 Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually sins against their own body.”
82. Proverbs 6:24-25 – “Keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.”
83. Galatians 5:19-21 – “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
84. Psalm 101:7 – “No one who practices deceit will dwell in my house; no one who speaks falsely will stand in my presence.”
85. 2 Samuel 13:14 – “But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.”
86. Luke 18:11-14 – “The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'”
87. Hosea 2:7 – “She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.'”
88. Proverbs 5:8 – “Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house.”

    

89. Hosea 4:13 – “They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.”
90. Matthew 19:6 – “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
91. Proverbs 7:24-27 – “Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say. Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain are a mighty throng. Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.”
92. Revelation 2:14 – “Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.”
93. Jeremiah 5:8 – “They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.”
94. Proverbs 22:14 – “The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.”
95. Matthew 5:31-32 – “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress; and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
96. Isaiah 50:1 – “This is what the Lord says: ‘Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.'”
97. Revelation 2:20 – “Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.”
98. Luke 12:47-48 – “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
99. Proverbs 9:18 – “But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.”
100. Luke 16:10-11 – “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?”
101. 2 Samuel 11:4 – “Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. Now, she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness. Then she went back home.”
102. Malachi 2:15 – “Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.”
103. 1 Timothy 3:2 – “Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach.”
104. 2 Peter 2:14 – “With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!”
105. 1 Corinthians 10:8 – “We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”
106. Romans 1:24-25 – “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.”
107. 2 Samuel 12:7-9 – “Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave your master’s house to you, and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you all Israel and Judah. And if all this had been too little, I would have given you even more.”
108. 1 John 2:15-16 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”
109. Proverbs 5:5 – “Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.”
110. Exodus 20:17 – “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
111. 1 Timothy 1:10 – “They are the lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.”
112. Ezekiel 23:19-20 – “Yet she became more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
113. John 8:3-5 – “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?'”
114. Proverbs 7:6-9 – “At the window of my house I looked out through the lattice. I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense. He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house.”
115. Revelation 3:16-17 – “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.”
116. Genesis 38:24 – “About three months later Judah was told, ‘Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.’ Judah said, ‘Bring her out and have her burned to death!'”
117. Leviticus 18:20 – “Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.”
118. 2 Samuel 11:3-4 – “And David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, ‘She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah.’ Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness. Then she went back home.”
119. Proverbs 7:10-12 – “Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent. She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home. Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.”
120. Proverbs 2:18-19 – “For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.”
121. Matthew 19:3-9 – “Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?’… Jesus replied, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.'”
122. Romans 1:26-27 – “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.”
123. 2 Kings 9:26 – “As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the Lord, I will repay you on this plot of land. Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

     

124. Isaiah 57:3-4 – “But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?”
125. Ezekiel 23:43 – “Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let her go, and let her live with her lover.'”
126. Hosea 4:10 – “They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not increase, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves to prostitution.”
127. Proverbs 6:24-26 – “Keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulterous woman preys upon your very life.”
128. Hosea 4:12 – “My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.”
129. Micah 2:2 – “They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes; they rob them of their inheritance.”
130. Matthew 22:29 – “Jesus replied, ‘You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.'”
131. Isaiah 1:21 – “See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!”
132. Romans 7:3 – “So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.”
133. 1 Peter 4:3 – “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
134. Genesis 39:9 – “No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
135. Ezekiel 23:16 – “As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.”
136. Proverbs 3:31-32 – “Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways, for the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.”
137. Romans 1:29-31 – “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, they are gossips, they are god-haters, they are arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.”
138. Proverbs 3:7 – “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.”
139. James 5:5 – “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.”
140. Jeremiah 3:1 – “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—would you now return to me?” declares the Lord.
141. Ezekiel 16:37 – “Therefore, I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you took pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will strip you in front of them, and they will see all your nakedness.”
142. John 4:17-18 – “The woman replied, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.'”
143. Matthew 18:6 – “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
144. Genesis 34:2 – “When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.”
145. Proverbs 6:34 – “For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.”
146. Ezekiel 23:40 – “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came! For whom you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.”
147. Micah 1:7 – “All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes, they will again be used.”

Conclusion

Cheating is not just a betrayal of trust; it’s a breach of moral and spiritual principles.

These Bible verses show that loyalty is highly valued in God’s eyes. Whether through adultery or emotional unfaithfulness, the consequences are clear.

Cheating may bring temporary satisfaction, but faithfulness brings lasting peace. So, let the wisdom of these verses lead to healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

While forgiveness is always possible, it’s important to recognize the damage done and seek healing.

Let these scriptures guide choices, reminding everyone that true love is based on respect, loyalty, and integrity.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the Bible Say to Forgive Cheating?

The Bible encourages forgiveness when there’s true repentance. Matthew 6:14-15 teaches that forgiving others opens the door to receiving God’s forgiveness. However, forgiveness doesn’t mean staying in harmful situations.

How Do You Deal With a Cheating Partner Biblically?

Confront the truth with wisdom and seek counsel from trusted church members. Set healthy boundaries while praying for guidance. If your partner shows genuine repentance, work on rebuilding trust through counseling.

What is the Punishment For Cheating in the Bible?

The Bible shows that cheating brings natural consequences like broken trust and damaged relationships. In Old Testament times, adultery carried serious penalties, including separation from the community.