Adultery

Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving. But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house. But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself. He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased. Proverbs 6:30-33 (NLT)

Want to screw up your emotional and physical health, complicate your financial future forever, damage your children, and permanently scar the people you love? You can accomplish all this through a word we don’t use too much any more: “adultery.” Call it cheating, being unfaithful, whatever you want. I can’t think of anything you could do that more effectively causes more long-term damage and pain.

Think it will go differently for you? That you will be spared? Think the way you handle your sexuality as a single won’t matter when you’re married? That pattens of behavior are easy to break? Think sexual content in entertainment, flirting with someone cute, being a “good friend” and spending lots of time with someone of the opposite sex doesn’t lead anywhere? Duh.