Matthew 14:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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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.
  • Deut 25:5-6 : 5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother; 6 and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
  • 2 Sam 12:7 : 7 And Nathan saith unto David, `Thou `art' the man! Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I anointed thee for king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
  • 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'
  • 2 Chr 26:18-19 : 18 and they stand up against Uzziah the king, and say to him, `Not for thee, O Uzziah, to make perfume to Jehovah, but for priests, sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to make perfume; go forth from the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, and `it is' not to thee for honour from Jehovah God.' 19 And Uzziah is wroth, and in his hand `is' a censer to make perfume, and in his being wroth with the priests -- the leprosy hath risen in his forehead, before the priests, in the house of Jehovah, from beside the altar of perfume.
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'
  • Mark 6:18 : 18 for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'
  • Acts 24:24-25 : 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;'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 6:16-26
    11 verses
    90%

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

    17For 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,

    18for John said to Herod -- `It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

    19and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

    20for 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.

    21And 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,

    22and 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,'

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

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

    25and 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.'

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

  • Matt 14:1-3
    3 verses
    87%

    1At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

    2and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

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

  • Luke 3:19-20
    2 verses
    79%

    19and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

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

  • Matt 14:5-11
    7 verses
    77%

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

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

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

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

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

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

    11and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought `it' nigh to her mother.

  • Matt 19:7-10
    4 verses
    71%

    7They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

    8He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

    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.'

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

  • John 4:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

    16Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

    17the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

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

  • Matt 3:14
    69%

    14but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'

  • Mark 10:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

    12and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

  • John 3:24
    68%

    24for John was not yet cast into the prison --

  • Matt 19:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3And 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?'

    4And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,

  • Matt 4:12
    68%

    12And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    67%

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

    32but 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.

  • Exod 20:14
    67%

    14`Thou dost not commit adultery.

  • Luke 9:9
    67%

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

  • Luke 16:18
    66%

    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.

  • Deut 24:4
    66%

    4`Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it `is' before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

  • Mark 10:2
    66%

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

  • Deut 22:14
    66%

    14and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

  • Luke 9:7
    66%

    7And 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;

  • Luke 20:34
    66%

    34And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

  • Mark 6:14
    65%

    14And 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.'

  • John 4:1
    65%

    1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

  • Matt 5:27
    65%

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