Matthew 5:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Matthew 5:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Leviticus 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22-24
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-32)

We have here an exposition of the seventh commandment, given us by the same hand that made the law, and therefore was fittest to be the interpreter of it: it is the law against uncleanness, which fitly follows upon the former; that laid a restraint upon sinful passions, this upon sinful appetites, both which ought always to be under the government of reason and conscience, and if indulged, are equ…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27. Ye have heard that it was said--The words “by,” or “to them of old time,” in this verse are insufficiently supported, and probably were not in the original text. Thou shall not commit adultery--Interpreting this seventh, as they did the sixth commandment, the traditional perverters of the law restricted the breach of it to acts of criminal intercourse between, or with, married persons exclusiv…