And I will sow her for Myself in the land. For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. Definitions In the Bible the word adultery refers to sexual relations by a married person with someone other than a spouse. The word fornication refers to other sexual relations between unmarried people and to sexual relations in the heathen temples in which the sex act was made a form of religion. In this article the word promiscuity refers to both adultery and fornication as well as homosexual activity.
Normal adultery is sex outside of marriage with a person of the opposite sex.
Abnormal adultery refers to all other non-marital sexual activity, including incest, homosexuality, bestiality, molestation of children. Sex outside of marriage is a meaningless physical encounter. And abuse of sex can mean maladjustment to God, to the human race, and many other maladjustments in life. Sex was designed by God for the propagation of the human race and to be an expression of love inside a marriage, between husband and wife. As a detail of married life, sex provides only momentary happiness or pleasure.