SIN

RESULT

RECOMMENDATION

FUTURE

LINKS

Adultery of a female:

1. There is a need for confession and repentance.

How to confess through prayer: For example, you may say this:

Dear Father in heaven, I have sinned and committed adultery. I have abused my “oneness” with my former husband, and broken the purity of your divine institution of marriage. I have destroyed my chastity. My marital relationship and the opportunity for its continuance is ruined. Please forgive me, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Implement separation, sexual abstinence and damage control: Live single; remarriage is not permitted.

God can forgive a sin of female adultery, but the woman will have to bear her defilement. Even though she may be cleansed through repentance and confession, her chastity and one male cognizance (a requirement for marriage) cannot be restored. Thus, a life of singleness would be required.

Discern between the clean and unclean: Failure to recognize adultery-defilement perpetuity:

Billy Graham and others

John Piper Uncleanness

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Find healing:

Rape and Healing

After Defilement: Avoid Improper and Unwarranted Desire

Old Testament Analysis and Comparison:

Death Sentence or No Protection from Divorce

2. Need for divorce:

Fornication (Mt. 19:9) gave reason to separate or divorce from the once unity. Every married man has a responsibility to keep his wife under every circumstance, except one: if his wife is unchaste, that is, if his wife has partaken in a sexual act with someone else--this is fornication. Then, and only then, is the husband lawfully (according to the Bible) to put away his wife, and to give her a bill of divorcement. Logically, if a woman, has committed a sin of fornication with someone, a bill of divorcement does not induce her to become unchaste--she has already committed the act which defiled her.

A man must provide cleanness for his home: He can't allow a defiled wife to pollute the whole family and land.