Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Cross-reference

Deuteronomy 22:21 immediately follows, also prescribing death for sexual sin (premarital unchastity), showing the same legal pattern.

Deuteronomy 22:24 deals with a betrothed virgin, again requiring death for both parties — a closely related adultery law in the same chapter.

Leviticus 20:10 gives the same law: both adulterer and adulteress must die — a direct parallel to the death penalty for adultery in Deuteronomy.

John 8:5 Citation

John 8:5 explicitly cites Moses' command to stone adulterers, directly quoting the penalty from this law.

John 8:4 Parallel

John 8:4 describes the same scenario — a woman caught in adultery — directly echoing the situation addressed in the law.

Ezekiel 23:45-47 applies the 'judgment of adulteresses' from the law, describing stoning as God's judgment on unfaithful Israel.

Ezekiel 16:38 applies the same adultery judgment metaphorically to Jerusalem, using the law's penalty as a symbol of divine punishment.

Romans 7:3 Parallel

Romans 7:3 uses the same principle — a married woman who sleeps with another is an adulteress — to illustrate the law's binding force until death.

Ezekiel 22:11 lists the same sin — defiling a neighbor's wife — as a detestable offense among Jerusalem's leaders, showing the law's violation.

Leviticus 18:20 prohibits the same act — lying with a neighbor's wife — without the death penalty, making it a parallel law against adultery.

Job 31:11 Parallel

Job 31:11 calls adultery a heinous crime punishable by judges, affirming the legal severity of the same sin.

2 Samuel 11:5 records the result of David's adultery with Bathsheba — a concrete example of the sin condemned in Deuteronomy.

In Ezekiel 18:6, the righteous man is defined by not defiling his neighbor's wife — echoing the same adultery law as a mark of righteousness.

Psalm 51:16 Contrast

Psalm 51:16, from David's repentance after adultery, shifts focus from the law's penalty to God's desire for a contrite heart.

Matthew 5:27 quotes the broader commandment against adultery, which underlies the death penalty here; Jesus then internalizes it.

Numbers 5:22-27 provides a different procedure for suspected adultery — the bitter water test — contrasting with the death penalty when witnesses are present.

Hebrews 13:4 reinforces the seriousness of adultery, warning that God will judge the sexually immoral, echoing the law's condemnation.