That explains the second part. Calling the first part just 'metaphorical' if your intent is to diminish it is a cop-out.Cornfed wrote: ↑October 12th, 2022, 6:33 amHe is clearly being more metaphorical there in addressing remarriage rather than sex. If the wife were to have sex, as would presumably happen at some time, then because she would in a sense be still married to the original man then that would be adultery, which Jesus is holding the man, as the instigator of the divorce, responsible for.MrMan wrote: ↑October 11th, 2022, 9:43 pmMatthew 19Cornfed wrote: ↑October 10th, 2022, 4:12 pmIt needs to keep being pointed out that adultery consists of a married woman having sex with someone other than her husband. It is not possible to commit adultery "on" a woman.Outcast9428 wrote: ↑October 10th, 2022, 4:07 pmI am not in a relationship though, I can’t commit adultery if there’s no one to commit adultery on.
Probably what MrMan was referring to was a misconstruction of what Jesus said to Pharisees about marriage.
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
(NKJV)
Look how Jesus used 'adultery.'
Be that as it may, just for plain ol' fornication, I Thessalonians 4, addressing the church, teaches that God gets vengence on those who defraud in such a way. Also, fornicators are listed among those who do not inherit the kingdom of God in I Corinthians 6. And there is a special warning to those who would fornicate with a prostitute.