Deuteronomy 22:14

Modern English Version

and accuses her of impropriety and publicly defames her, saying, “I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I found her not to be a virgin,”

Cross References

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore I desire that the younger women marry, bear children, manage the house, and give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a slanderer are like tasty morsels; they go down into the innermost parts of the heart.

Deuteronomy 22:19

and they must fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the girl, because he has publicly humiliated a virgin of Israel. Then she is to remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

Exodus 23:1

You must not give a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Deuteronomy 22:13

If any man takes a wife and has sexual relations with her and then rejects her,

Deuteronomy 22:15

then the father and mother of the girl must produce evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.