The Bible kicks against cheating; fornication and adultery. If you search the scripture, you will realize that there are Bible verses about a cheating woman and the repercussion that comes with cheating. Cheating is utterly against the ordinances of God.
In today’s society, there are so many customs that kick against cheating be it fornication, adultery or any other form of cheating I will take us through in this piece.
Asides from society’s punishment for cheating, the Bible spells out the reward of indulging in sexual immoralities and the repercussion of such acts and also, the benefits of holding unto the will of God concerning sexual purity.
Useful Verses about a Cheating Woman
There are so many ways a woman can cheat. According to the scripture, there are some Bible verses about a cheating woman that made it known that a woman can cheat on herself, her husband, her children and even on God.
Women can create a balance in their lifestyles and society as well. By adhering strictly to Biblical expectations of women when it comes to faithfulness.
So, I divide this write-up into various categories of cheating. Cheating against oneself, cheating against one’s spouse, the children, and even God.
1. Cheating on Oneself
A woman can knowingly and unknowingly cheat on herself. Do you know when a woman fails to pray to God to get the protection and blessings that are expected of her for her family, she’s cheating against herself as the engine room of the family?
Also, some women neglect personal hygiene and blame it on the enormous house chores and job demands from the office. In the end, she loses value for herself, her family and even her community.
The following Bible verses contain words of encouragement and comfort that might help women that seem to find themselves in such conditions to scale through life successfully without losing out on self-esteem.
1. 2 Corinthians 6:14
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV
2. Luke 13:2-3
And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3. No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Luke 13:2-3 ESV
3. 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
4. James 4:17
“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
James 4:17 ESV
5. Colossians 3:9-10
9. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
10. And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Colossians 3:9-10 (ESV)
6. 2 Timothy 2:2
“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV
7. Matthew 13:12
“For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”
Matthew 13:12 ESV
8. Ecclesiastes 7:1
“A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.”
Ecclesiastes 7:1 ESV
2. Cheating on her Husband
So many customs and traditions prohibit women from cheating on their husbands and defiling their matrimonial beds. Some traditions hinge on the penalty of death or other traditional rites to appease whatever thing they believe in.
The fear of these punishments has over the years served as a deterrent to some women who may have thrown caution to the wind about fidelity in marriage. It is rather saddening that these women rather fear the traditions of society other than the admonition from God.
These few Bible verses point out the areas in the scripture that speak against fornication and adultery.
9. James 4:4
“You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
James 4:4 ESV
10. Hebrews 13:4
“Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
Hebrews 13:4 ESV
11. Matthew 19:9
“And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:9 ESV
12. Proverbs 6:32
“He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.”
Proverbs 6:32 ESV
13. 1 Corinthians 7:1-2
1. Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband
1 Corinthians 7:1-2 ESV
14. Matthew 5:32
“But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”
Matthew 5:32 ESV
15. Matthew 5:27-28
27. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV
16. Corinthians 7:15
“But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.”
Corinthians 7:15 ESV
17. Leviticus 20:10
“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
Leviticus 20:10 ESV
18. Corinthians 7:2
“But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”
Corinthians 7:2 ESV
19. 1 Corinthians 6:18
“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV
20. Matthew 5:31-32
31. “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32. But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:31-32 ESV
21. Revelation 21:8
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 21:8 ESV
22. Exodus 20:14
“You shall not commit adultery.”
Exodus 20:14 ESV
23. Malachi 2:16
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Malachi 2:16 ESV
24. Matthew 19:3-6
3. Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4. He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5. And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:3-9 ESV
25. Luke 16:18
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18 ESV
26. Matthew 19:6
“So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:6 ESV
27. Deuteronomy 22:22
“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.”
Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV
28. Ephesians 5:28
“In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
Ephesians 5:28 ESV
29. 1 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV
30. 1 Corinthians 7:12-14
12. To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 13. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Corinthians 7:12-14 ESV
31. Matthew 5:28
“But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Matthew 5:28 ESV
32. 1 John 1:9
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
1 John 1:9 ESV
33. Romans 7:2
“For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.”
Romans 7:2 ESV
34. Mark 10:11-12
11. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12. And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Mark 10:11-12 ESV
35. 1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”
1 Peter 3:7 ESV
36. 1 Corinthians 6:15-16
15. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16. Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 6:15-16 ESV
37. Matthew 19:4-6
4. He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5. And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?6. So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV
38. 1 Corinthians 10:12-14
12. Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 14. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:12-14 ESV
39. Genesis 2:24
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24 ESV
40. Matthew 15:19
“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.”
Matthew 15:19 ESV
3. Cheating on her Children
A woman plays a very significant role in the life of her child. The absence of a mother’s magical touch might leave some of motherly responsibilities of a mother unplayed and untended to.
A woman can knowingly or unknowingly cheat on her children. She might say hurting words to a child that might out-play negatively on a child’s confidence without being away of it.
How about Rebekah who cheated on Esua her first son and aided Jacob her second and favourite son to take the father’s blessings in place of Esau? Genesis 27:8-10. This was a typical example of a mother cheating on her child.
Some women deny their children the right to education, motherly love and care, sound scriptural teaching, etc, these are ways mothers cheat on their children and this narrative must be changed as a Christian woman is always expected to live an exemplary life.
41. Ephesians 6:4
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
Ephesians 6:4 (ESV)
4. Cheating on God
42. Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
Hosea 1:2 ESV
A woman might cheat on God with her character or in the ways she relates to people that are loved by God. A woman can cheat on God with her substance or unavailability in the presence of God.
A woman should intensify her love for God to reflect the kind of life that was lived by Mary Magdalene, Mary from Bethany, etc.
These women understood what it meant to relate well with God and they built a relationship with God and served as role models to other new converts on how to love God.
43. Proverbs 5:1-4
1. My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 2. That you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 3. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 4. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Proverbs 5:1-4 ESV
44. Ephesians 4:32
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
46. John 15:2
“Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”
John 15:2 ESV
47. 1 John 2:15-17
15. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is in the world — the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life — is not from the Father but is from the world. 17. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:15-17 ESV
48. Proverbs 13:5
“The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.”
Proverbs 13:5 ESV
49. 1 John 1:6
“If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”
1 John 1:6 ESV
50. Mark 11:25
“And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
Mark 11:25 ESV
51. Romans 12:17
“Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honourable in the sight of all.”
Romans 12:17 ESV
52. John 8:10-11
Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11. She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
John 8:10-11 ESV
53. Proverbs 24:12
“If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watching over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?”
Proverbs 24:12 ESV
54. Acts 2:38
“And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 2:38 ESV
55. Proverbs 28:18
“Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.”
Proverbs 28:18 ESV
56. Proverbs 12:22
“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.”
Proverbs 12:22 ESV
57. Isaiah 29:15
“Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Isaiah 29:15 ESV
Conclusion
God is love. The love of God should not be misused. Marriage or relationship will grow and bloom well where trust abounds. The Bible mentions in the book of 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 19 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own. 20. For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. that our body is a living sacrifice.”
The above bible verses talked about how a woman can cheat on herself, her husband and children and even God.
The question I want you to ask yourself is, will God accept my body as a living sacrifice?
Your body should be kept clean and free from all forms of sexual immoralities if you want to glorify God with your bodies and the price paid on the cross of Calvary should not be in vain.
Every woman should live a life devoid of cheating on herself, her husband, her children and even God. It is my earnest prayer for God to strengthen every Christian woman to live a life free of cheating, and worthy of emulsion by young female Christians.
You need to stay away from sexual immoralities if you want your body to be God’s habitation.
