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ADULTERY

Mike Torchina doesn’t mind wearing a scarlet letter at all. In a recent article he wrote for Newsweek Magazine, he publicly stated that he’s had affairs with around 40 married women. He said, “I don’t feel bad about having had affairs with married women, because they were feeling neglected and they just wanted to be loved.” 

—NEWSWEEK, July 12, 2004, p. 53 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson 

2 Tim. 3:1-7 (NASB) “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. [2] For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, [4] treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; [5] holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these. [6] For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, [7] always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

ADULTERY

A man in Port Huron, Michigan detected an odor he identified as natural gas. Trying to find the source, he lit a match. He found the leak! The resulting fire singed his eyebrows and his hair and it took the fire department 90 minutes to put it out. The local fire chief suggested the best thing to do when smelling a gas leak is to call 911.

The writer of proverbs compares adultery to playing with fire. If you decide to go down that road, you can expect to get burned. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

World Magazine, December 30, 2017 p. 17

Proverbs 6:27–29 (CSB)

Can a man embrace fire

and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on burning coals

without scorching his feet?

So it is with the one who sleeps with

another man’s wife;

no one who touches her will go unpunished.