Adultery & Fornication

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Greetings Saints in Jesus name!

The question has arisen as to the difference between adultery
and fornication.  There's quite a difference.  My pastor's
father, Bro Bob E. Koonce, says that:

fornication - the illicit sex act between two people that aren't
              married to each other.

adultery    - the impure state of marraige after fornication
              has occured.

All adulterers are fornicators, but not all fornicators are
aldulterers.  If one is married, and they fornicate, then they've
placed the marraige into an adulterous (impure) state.

The woman caught in adultery (that was brought before Jesus) must
have been *a married woman*.  Her sex partner wasn't her husband,
but maybe another married man (we don't know for sure) or some
single guy (we still don't know for sure).

The adulteress caught, is kinda like the children of Israel 
whoring after the idols, isn't it?  An impure state between
them and God.

Non-married singles that fornicate, are just that...fornicators.
However, their activity (when it involves a marraige union that's
not their own) causes the married union to become impure (or 
adulterous).

Bro "does that make sense but not an expert" Tyler