John 4:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

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  • Gen 20:3 : 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Gen 34:7-8 : 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. 8 Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
  • Gen 34:31 : 31 They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
  • Num 5:29 : 29 "This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;
  • Ruth 4:10 : 10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
  • Jer 3:20 : 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel, says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 16:32 : 32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
  • Mark 10:12 : 12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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    15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

    16Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

    17The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'

  • John 4:19
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    19The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

  • John 4:25-29
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    25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

    26Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

    27At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

    28So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

    29"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"

  • John 4:9-11
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    9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

    10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

    11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?

  • John 8:10-11
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    10Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"

    11She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

  • Matt 22:28
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    28In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."

  • John 4:7
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    7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

  • Matt 14:4
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    4For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

  • John 4:39
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    39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

  • Luke 20:33-34
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    33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

    34Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

  • John 8:4-5
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    4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

    5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

  • Mark 12:23
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    23In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27"You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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    4He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

    8He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

    9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

    10His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

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    13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • Mark 6:18
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    18For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:'

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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    48He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 7:4
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    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • John 2:4
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    4Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

  • John 4:21
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    21Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

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    7But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

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    1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.