“You shall not commit adultery.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation3
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
James cites 'Do not commit adultery' (v.11) from the Decalogue, Exodus 20:14. The pairing of adultery and murder is a formal scriptural citation establishing that breaking one point makes one a transgressor of all.
High confidence'You shall not commit adultery' — verbatim citation of the seventh commandment.
High confidence'You shall not commit adultery' verbatim from the Decalogue (Exodus 20:14 / Deuteronomy 5:18).
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The inclusion of adulterers (moichoi) and thieves in the catalog echoes the Decalogue's prohibitions of adultery and theft, the foundational covenant ethic underlying Paul's roster of those excluded from the kingdom. Coherent but diffuse, as vice lists conventionally absorb Decalogue categories.
Medium confidenceJesus' charge that remarriage after unlawful divorce 'commits adultery' presupposes the Decalogue prohibition (Exodus 20:14 / Deuteronomy 5:18).
Medium confidenceThe charge 'she would be called an adulteress' (7:3) presupposes the seventh commandment's prohibition of adultery as the legal norm making the analogy intelligible.
Low confidence