Proverbs 2:nineteen

None that become unto her render again, neither accept they hold of the paths of life.

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Adultery is fatal. It is a terminal sin. There is no recovery from adultery. Solomon warned his son about the strange woman – a whorish woman that will have sex with a man other than her hubby (Pr 2:16-xviii). In an effort to frighten his son against adultery, he gave a full general dominion that is confirmed past Scripture and experience – adultery is fatal.

Parents and pastors must warn confronting adultery, and they especially must warn young men about its temptations and dire consequences (Pr 6:twenty-26). The deceitful hearts and raging hormones of young men are very vulnerable to it (Jer 17:9; I Cor 7:nine). Youth is a fourth dimension of vanity and much temptation toward this sin (Ps 25:7; Eccl 11:10). Therefore, the inspired volume of Proverbs has much to say about sexual sins to protect young men.

A whorish woman will never tell the truth about the consequences of touching her (Pr half dozen:29). Instead, she flatters her victim to his ruin (Pr 2:16; 7:21). She describes in the virtually glowing terms the pleasures that she can give and the certainty of non getting caught (Pr 7:13-20; 9:17). She does not tell that her other victims are in hell (Pr 5:5; 7:27; 9:18).

The world volition not help young men. Information technology glorifies and protects adultery past goggle box programming, movies, music, magazines, books, legislation, birth control, popular opinion, peer pressure, immodest clothing, coed dorms, and other inventions. The world has been committed to adultery from the beginning (Eph 4:17-19; I John 2:15-17).

There are many ways to die, and adultery will help you discover and experience all of them. Samson found one fashion – suicide every bit a blind human! But there are more! In a nation enforcing righteousness, like Israel under the Law of Moses, adultery was a majuscule offence, even for women that kept it subconscious (Lev twenty:10; Num 5:11-31; Deut 22:22-24). Or you lot can die at the hands of a jealous husband (Pr 6:34-35) or by sexual diseases.

Merely there are worse ways to die past infidelity. This heinous sin volition destroy your reputation and soul. Men understand some sins, but they do not permit mercy or understanding for adultery (Pr six:27-33; Vocal eight:6). It violates one of the nearly intimate bonds and trusts in human relationships. Information technology is a heinous sin and should exist judged severely (Task 31:9-12).

Adultery will destroy your soul (Pr 6:32). Showtime, information technology will bring guilt and shame like never before (Pr five:eight-fourteen). It will bring God's chastening punishment and the removal of His Spirit from your life (Ps 51:7-12). And it volition make you a bond slave to sexual fantasies and further sins (Pr 5:20-23; Eccl 7:26). You lot cannot save yourself. Infidelity is terminal.

Merely where things are impossible for men, they are possible with God (Luke 18:25-27), fifty-fifty as Paul gave thanks for deliverance from the bondage of his sin of concupiscence (Rom 7:7-8,24-25). Adultery is terminal as a general rule, where the exceptions are those delivered by the superabundant grace of God in Jesus Christ (John eight:1-11; I Cor 6:9-11).

Why are you told the details of David'southward horrible sins of infidelity and murder? Then that other such sinners might notice comfort in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. God freely forgave David and still honored him as the greatest rex in Israel and the namesake begetter of Jesus Christ (I Kgs eleven:4; 14:8; fifteen:3-five; Matt 1:1; Rom 15:4; Rev v:5; 22:16).

God chose David in Jesus Christ by sovereign ballot earlier the world began (Eph one:3-12). Jesus died for each of David's sins, including his adultery and murder (Is 53:four-12; II Cor v:21; I Pet 2:24; Rev 1:5). David took enormous confidence in this slap-up salvation by God's costless grace in Jesus Christ (II Sam 23:1-five; Ps 32:1-2). Who shall lay anything to the charge of God'south elect, including David? It is God that justifieth (Rom 8:33)!

But God's practical mercy for adultery requires full confession and repentance, which David gave freely and fully (Two Sam 12:thirteen; Ps 51:1-19). God is faithful to forgive confessed sins, and Elihu described confession well, "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me non; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall run into the light" (Chore 33:27-28).