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You Shall Not Commit Adultery
Readers Theater - Matthew 5:27-30
by Dr. Ralph F. WilsonPart of a study on the Sermon on the Mount
A creative reading from Matthew 5:27-30; Genesis 39:6-7; Exodus 20:17; 2 Samuel 11:2-4; Job 31:1; Jeremiah 17:9-10; Matthew 5:27-30; Mark 7:21-23; 2 Peter 2:14; James 1:14-15; and 1 John 2:16-17.
Faith of Abraham (Genesis 11-25)| READER 1 | You shall not commit adultery. |
| READER 2 | Adultery. |
| READER 3 | Adultery. |
| READER 1 | You shall not commit adultery |
| READER 2 | One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful.... |
| READER 3 | Desire! |
| READER 1 | Lust! |
| READER 3 | David sent messengers to get her. |
| READER 2 | She came to him, and he slept with her. |
| READER 1 | Each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, |
| READER 2 | By his own evil desire, |
| READER 1 | By his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. |
| READER 3 | Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. |
| READER 1 | "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you |
| READER 2 | But I tell you |
| READER 3 | But I tell you |
| READER 1 | that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
| READER 2 | Lustfully. |
| READER 3 | With impure intention. |
| READER 2 | With carnal desire. |
| READER 1 | That anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
| READER 2 | How about a woman? |
| READER 3 | Can she sin with lust, too? |
| READER 1 | Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Come to bed with me!" |
| READER 2 | With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning.... |
| READER 3 | But it can't be a sin just to look, can it? |
| READER 2 | Can it? |
| READER 1 | From within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, |
| READER 2 | Greed, malice, deceit, |
| READER 3 | Lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. |
| READER 2 | All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' |
| READER 1 | The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? |
| READER 2 | I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, |
| READER 3 | To reward a man according to his conduct, |
| READER 2 | and according to the fruit of his doings. |
| READER 1 | "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' |
| READER 2 | But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully |
| READER 3 | has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
| READER 1 | "I made a covenant with my eyes," said Job, "not to look lustfully at a girl." |
| READER 2 | If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. |
| READER 3 | It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. |
| READER 1 | And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. |
| READER 3 | It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. |
| READER 1 | You shall not covet your neighbor's house. |
| READER 2 | You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, |
| READER 3 | Or his manservant |
| READER 1 | Or his maidservant, |
| READER 2 | His ox or donkey, |
| READER 3 | Or anything that belongs to your neighbor. |
| READER 1 | You shall not commit adultery |
| READER 2 | With your body |
| READER 3 | Or your eyes |
| READER 2 | Or your heart |
| READER 3 | No, not at all. |
| READER 1 | For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. |
| READER 2 | The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. |
| READER 1 | Purify my looking, Lord. |
| READER 2 | Purify my desires, Father. |
| READER 3 | Purify my heart, Jesus. |
| READER 1 | That I might please You. |
| ALL | That WE might please You. |
 All lessons now compiled as a 220-page book available as an e-book or printed book. |
Part of a study on the Sermon on the Mount found at https://www.jesuswalk.com/manifesto/
Copyright © 2025, Ralph F. Wilson. <pastor
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