Mark 6:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 18:16 : 16 `The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it `is' thy brother's nakedness.
  • Lev 20:21 : 21 `And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it `is' impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.
  • 1 Kgs 22:14 : 14 And Micaiah saith, `Jehovah liveth; surely that which Jehovah saith unto me -- it I speak.'
  • Ezek 3:18-19 : 18 In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. 19 And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.
  • Matt 14:3-4 : 3 For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, 4 for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'
  • Acts 20:26-27 : 26 wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I `am' clear from the blood of all, 27 for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
  • Acts 24:24-26 : 24 And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ, 25 and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;' 26 and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;

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    16 And Herod having heard, said -- `He whom I did behead -- John -- this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

    17 For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

  • Matt 14:3-10
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    3 For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

    4 for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

    5 and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

    6 But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

    7 whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

    8 And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

    9 and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded `it' to be given;

    10 and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

  • Luke 3:19-20
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    19 and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

    20 added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

  • Mark 6:19-27
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    19 and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

    20 for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

    21 And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

    22 and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,'

    23 and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.'

    24 And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

    25 and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.'

    26 And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away,

    27 and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

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    16 `The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it `is' thy brother's nakedness.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18 `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

  • John 4:18
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    18 for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

  • Matt 19:9-10
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    9 `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    10 His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

  • Matt 19:3
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    3 And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11 and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

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    14 And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said -- `John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

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    18 `And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

  • Acts 12:1-2
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    1 And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

    2 and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword,

  • Luke 9:9
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    9 and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    67%

    31 `And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

    32 but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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    16 have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

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    7 And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

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    6 but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

  • John 3:24
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    24 for John was not yet cast into the prison --

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    6 so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Luke 13:31
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    31 On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;'

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    18 `Thou dost not commit adultery.

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    2 And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

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    27 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

  • Rom 7:3
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    3 so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

  • Lev 20:21
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    11 `The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she `is' thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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