John 4:18

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.””

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BSBPD

“In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo John 4:18 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 20:3One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
  2. Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
  3. Genesis 34:7When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
  4. Genesis 34:31But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
  5. Numbers 5:29This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
  6. Ruth 4:10Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”
  7. Jeremiah 3:20But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
  8. Ezekiel 16:32You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
  9. Ezekiel 16:35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD!
  10. Mark 10:12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
  11. John 4:16Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
  12. Romans 7:3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
  13. 1 Corinthians 7:10To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
  14. Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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