types of adultery
4 Types of Adultery
This post was first published on ROOTSS on Wednesday, 7th February 2007
When I was a young boy growing up in church, I remember one particular Sunday when there was no Sunday School. My sisters and I accompanied our parents to Sunday Service and Rev Sam Goh was preaching. Back then, our church was pretty small and cosy, and could sit about 300 persons. Our dear Pastor asked the congregation whether any of us could remember the Ten Commandments.I remember one member mentioning "Thou shall not steal", and another "Thou shall not murder". Well, this young gentleman, at the tender age of 10 or 11, raised his hand and said,"Thou shall not commit adultery".Even though I had responded so, I never knew the actual meaning of that word until much later in my teens. And as I look back, the progressive revelation to me is that there are actually 4 types of adultery.
1. Physical Adultery
This is the one referred to in the Ten Commandments as recorded in Ex 20:14. It is being unfaithful to one 's spouse by going to bed with someone other than one 's spouse. The concept of physical adultery is something that even pre-believers are able to comprehend.
2. Mental Adultery
In Jesus ' sermon on the mount, He tells us in Matt 5:27-28 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery. ' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. This was something pretty radical, because the standards set by Jesus Himself seems to be even higher than what was given through Moses.
3. Emotional Adultery
I learned this term when my wife and I attended a marriage-enrichment course called Married for Life in 2003. When one starts to look to someone else to meet his or her emotional needs, then he or she is actually committing emotional adultery with that other person, even though the physical (or even mental act) has not taken place.
Dennis Rainey, the co-founder and president of
This post was first published on ROOTSS on Wednesday, 7th February 2007
When I was a young boy growing up in church, I remember one particular Sunday when there was no Sunday School. My sisters and I accompanied our parents to Sunday Service and Rev Sam Goh was preaching. Back then, our church was pretty small and cosy, and could sit about 300 persons. Our dear Pastor asked the congregation whether any of us could remember the Ten Commandments.I remember one member mentioning "Thou shall not steal", and another "Thou shall not murder". Well, this young gentleman, at the tender age of 10 or 11, raised his hand and said,"Thou shall not commit adultery".Even though I had responded so, I never knew the actual meaning of that word until much later in my teens. And as I look back, the progressive revelation to me is that there are actually 4 types of adultery.
1. Physical Adultery
This is the one referred to in the Ten Commandments as recorded in Ex 20:14. It is being unfaithful to one 's spouse by going to bed with someone other than one 's spouse. The concept of physical adultery is something that even pre-believers are able to comprehend.
2. Mental Adultery
In Jesus ' sermon on the mount, He tells us in Matt 5:27-28 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery. ' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. This was something pretty radical, because the standards set by Jesus Himself seems to be even higher than what was given through Moses.
3. Emotional Adultery
I learned this term when my wife and I attended a marriage-enrichment course called Married for Life in 2003. When one starts to look to someone else to meet his or her emotional needs, then he or she is actually committing emotional adultery with that other person, even though the physical (or even mental act) has not taken place.
Dennis Rainey, the co-founder and president of
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