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Job 31:11
“For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:”
Job 31:11 in the King James Version
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.Read Job 31:11 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Job 31
If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
Cross references for Job 31:11
- Leviticus 20:10
The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Job 31:28
this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
- Deuteronomy 22:22-24
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel. If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be m...
- Genesis 38:24
It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
- Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
- Ezekiel 16:38
I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Proverbs 6:29-33
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished. Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry: but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the w...
- Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!
- Genesis 39:9
He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!
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