2007-04-08 17:54:57 · 13 answers · asked by Constellation 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Adultery would be restricted to a marriage while fornication would be any other, i believe including marriage too. as in all adultery is fornication but not all fornication is adultery.
2007-04-08 17:59:30 · answer #1 · answered by Tuesday 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's a gray area where those two are somehow related.
Strictly speaking, FORNICATION is sex between two unmarried partners or two partners who are not married to each other. ADULTERY is the act of sex between a married person and someone who is not his/her legal spouse.
Technically, the act of two single people having sex (premarital sex) is called fornication. Also, fornication may also pertain to extramarital sex, as the two partners are not married to each other. Adultery, on the other hand, is defined strictly on the premise that one or both partners are married but not to each other.
2007-04-08 18:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by DarkAngel 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fornication is having sex with someone to whom you are not married (whether you are married to someone else or single). Adultery is sex with someone other than your spouse. As such, adultery is fornication, but fornication is not necessarily adultery.
2007-04-08 18:13:49 · answer #3 · answered by paladin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adultery is when a married person cheats outside of a marriage and fornication is sex before marriage
2007-04-08 18:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have always thought of adultery as someone in a marriage cheating on their spouse, and fornication as someone single having sex before marriage.
2007-04-08 18:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by Ruby Rose 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fornication is fun. Adultery is dangerous fun.
2007-04-13 23:14:03 · answer #6 · answered by adam w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adultery is fornication while you and/or the other person is married.
2007-04-08 18:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Merriam-Webster, fornication is consensual sexual intercourse between two unmarried people. Adultery is voluntary sex between a married person and someone else, either a married or unmarried person.
2007-04-08 18:06:20 · answer #8 · answered by Come on in, the water's lovely 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adultery is a voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and a woman not his wife or between a married woman and a man not her husbandSo adultery can be conducted between married man and married woman but she/he is not his/her own spouse. or a married man/woman with unmarried woman/man
Fornication is (1) a voluntary sexual intercourse engaged in by a man especially an unmarried man with unmarried woman(2)voluntary sexual intercourse engaged in by an unmarried person or any unlawful sexual intercourse including adultery.So fornication can be conducted between umarried man and woman based only on their lust and love each other for a freesex such as between boyfriend anf girlfri
end.Both acts will have great sin and God does not allowed it...So sexual intercourse should be made between a spouse only with a formal marriage..
2007-04-08 18:36:39 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adultery is when you are married and have sex with someone else and fornication is when you are having sex and you're not married
2007-04-13 11:32:18 · answer #10 · answered by nutty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋