27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
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Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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.
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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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…
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