Quotes about Infidelity
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
— Numbers 5:12
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:1
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
— Proverbs 6:29
But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
— Craig Groeschel
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
— Jeremiah 3:9
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:20
Our only option, then, is honesty that leads to repentance. As the Bible shows, God's grace can cover any sin, including murder, infidelity, or betrayal. Yet by definition grace must be received, and hypocrisy disguises our need to receive grace. When the masks fall, hypocrisy is exposed as an elaborate ruse to avoid grace.
— Philip Yancey
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
— Ezekiel 23:9
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
— Leviticus 20:10
She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
— Proverbs 7:13
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
— CS Lewis
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
— Ezekiel 16:20