John 4:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ For you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁸ “You’ve had five husbands, and the man you are with now isn’t your husband. You’ve spoken the truth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth."

John 4:18 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:20

“But indeed as a wife betrays her husband, so have you betrayed Me, O house of Yisra’ĕl,” declares יהוה.

Mark 10:12

“And if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Romans 7:3

So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

Ezekiel 16:32

“The wife who commits adultery who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Ruth 4:10

“And also, Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of Maḥlon, I have acquired as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead should not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

Numbers 5:29

This is the Torah of jealousy, when a wife turns aside under her husband’s authority and defiles herself,

Genesis 34:31

But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a whore?”

Genesis 34:2

And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the land, saw her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.

Genesis 20:3

But Elohim came to Aḇimeleḵ in a dream by night, and said to him, “See, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be respected by all, and the bed be undefiled. But Elohim shall judge those who whore, and adulterers.

John 4:17

The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” יהושע said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’

John 4:19

The woman said to Him, “Master, I see that You are a prophet.

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, O whore, hear the word of יהוה!

John 4:16

יהושע said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”