DLIFE 74, 76 - adulteries of every kind

IN PROPORTION
AS ANY ONE SHUNS ADULTERIES OF EVERY KIND AS SINS,
IN THE SAME PROPORTION
HE LOVES CHASTITY.

DLIFE 74
To "commit adultery," . . .means, in the natural sense,
not only to commit whoredom,
but also to do obscene things,
to speak lascivious things,
and to think about filthy things.
But in the spiritual sense to "commit adultery" means
to adulterate the goods of the Word,
and to falsify its truths.
In the highest sense to "commit adultery" means
to deny the divinity of the Lord,
and to profane the Word.
These are the "adulteries of every kind."
The natural person is able to know from rational light
that to "commit adultery" includes in its meaning
the doing of things obscene,
the speaking of things lascivious,
and the thinking of things that are filthy;
but he does not know that to commit adultery
means also to adulterate the goods of the Word
and to falsify its truths,
and still less that it means
to deny the divinity of the Lord
and to profane the Word.
Consequently neither does he know
that adultery is so great an evil
that it may be called diabolism itself,
for he who is in natural adultery
is also in spiritual adultery, and the converse.

DLIFE 76
. . . the lasciviousness of adultery and the chastity of marriage
stand toward each other exactly as do hell and heaven,
and that the lasciviousness of adultery makes hell in a person,
and the chastity of marriage makes heaven.