Posted November 13, 2026
Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang is a Taiwanese and American electrical engineer and business executive who has served as co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia. His company has provided as much as 90 percent of the advanced chips used in the AI industry, putting it at “the heart of the AI economy.” Forbes estimates his personal net worth at $154 billion.
Then came the accusation that Huang engaged in an extramarital affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, a story Dr. Ryan Denison covered in his latest Focus article, “How Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s affair could affect you.” Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an executive who reports to him. Company shares fell 9.63 percent in after-hours trading after the news broke.
Nvidia’s board met Wednesday night in response and announced Huang’s resignation the next morning. Yesterday afternoon, Reuters reported that Huang had a third affair as well, this one also with a company employee.
You might expect me to reply by quoting Numbers 32:23, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” I could add that even the most powerful and wealthy among us are not immune to the consequences of immorality.
I could then cite Huang’s story as a cautionary tale regarding the peril of committing “private” sin that inevitably becomes public. And I could quote the well-known warning that sin will always take us further than we wanted to go, keep us longer than we wanted to stay, and cost us more than we wanted to pay.
All of that is true. But it’s not the point I want us to consider today.
On November 8, Nvidia’s board announced that it was “initiating an independent investigation” regarding reports that Huang “has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.” The announcement said nothing about an affair or moral concerns, though Huang states in his company’s code of conduct that “we recognize our responsibility to maintain high ethical standards,” and the code asserts that managers at the company “play a special role, promoting equitable and ethical decisions.”
Only when news of a second affair broke and the company’s stock fell did the board act to remove the CEO. This is unsurprising: the company’s governance policies state that “the Board is responsible for protecting the assets of the Company and serving the best interests of the Company’s stockholders.” The policy requires board members to “abide by the highest ethical and fiduciary standards,” but does not specifically require them to hold the CEO or other employees accountable in this regard.
As a result, Nvidia’s board did not oust the CEO when his personal immorality became public, only when it hurt the company financially. We can hypothesize that CEOs at other companies similarly engaged in personal immorality have not faced Huang’s fate so long as their personal failings do not affect their company’s bottom line.
We typically face consequences for behavior that is consequential within our profession. A banker can have an affair and keep his job, while a pastor cannot. A pastor can manage funds poorly and keep his job, while a banker cannot.
This is because ours is a society in which we are all producers or consumers. In every profession I can think of, we grade and are graded by transactional performance. Consequently, I cannot claim that personal sin by powerful people will always lead to public consequences.
But that’s not the biblical reason to avoid such sin.
One reason Scripture calls us to moral character is that “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil” (2 Corinthians 5:10). God sees what others do not and will judge every sin we do not confess with a repentant spirit.
Even when we do, the consequences of our sins remain with regard to eternal rewards:
Each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation [of Christ] survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire (1 Corinthians 3:13–15).
God cannot reward us in the next life for sins committed in this one. Even when we confess them and are forgiven, the rewards we would have gained for faithful obedience are lost.
But there’s another biblical reason to refuse personal sin: because God says so. For example, he commands us to “flee from sexual immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18). His word tells us, “Sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints” (Ephesians 5:3). To the contrary, “this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3).
Our Lord will help us in this regard: “God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). Whatever his word commands, his Spirit enables.
Here’s my point: sin is wrong on the merits, whatever its apparent consequences. We are to obey God’s word because it is God’s word, knowing that because “God is love” (1 John 4:8), his will must always be for our best.
Someone said, “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.” A better statement is, “God said it and that settles it, whether I believe it or not.”
Why is the difference relevant for you today?
“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.” —Neil T. Anderson
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