Verb moicheuō (to commit adultery) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

5: 27"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō).'
5: 28But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery (moicheuō) with her in his heart.
5: 32But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery (moicheuō); and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19: 18He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō); You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness;

Mark

10: 19You know the commandments: 'You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō); You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.'"

Luke

16: 18"Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery (moicheuō), and whoever marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery (moicheuō).
18: 20You know the commandments: 'You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō); You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother.'"

John

8: 4they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery (moicheuō).

Romans

2: 22You saying: do not commit adultery (moicheuō), you commit adultery (moicheuō)? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples?
13: 9The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō); 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."

James

2: 11For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery (moicheuō)," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery (moicheuō) but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Revelation

2: 22Beware, I am throwing her on a bed, and those who commit adultery (moicheuō) with her I am throwing into great distress, unless they repent of her doings;

Exodus (LXX)

20: 14 (20: 13)Thou shalt not commit adultery (moicheuō).

Leviticus (LXX)

20: 10Whatever man shall commit adultery (moicheuō) with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery (moicheuō) with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the man committing adultery (moicheuō) and the woman committing adultery (moicheuō).

Deuteronomy (LXX)

5: 18 (5: 17)Thou shalt not commit adultery (moicheuō).

Jeremiah (LXX)

3: 9And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery (moicheuō) with wood and stone.

Ezekiel (LXX)

23: 43Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery (moicheuō) with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?

Hoseah (LXX)

4: 13They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughter sin- law shall commit adultery (moicheuō).
4: 14And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery (moicheuō): for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.
7: 4They are all commit adultery (moicheuō), as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

Sirach (LXX)

23: 23For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath committed adultery (moicheuō) through unchastity, and brought children by another man.