John 4:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him: You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she has a husband.

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, the leader of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.

Genesis 34:31

But they retorted, “Should our sister be treated like a prostitute?”

Jeremiah 3:20

But like a woman faithless to her lover, thus have you been faithless to me, house of Israel—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:32

Adulterous wife, taking strangers in place of her husband!

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

Numbers 5:29

This, then, is the ritual for jealousy when a woman goes astray while under the authority of her husband and defiles herself,

Mark 10:12

and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” Blessing of the Children.

John 4:16

Jesus said to her, “Go call your husband and come back.”

John 4:17

The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus answered her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’

John 4:19

The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.

Romans 7:3

Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.

Ruth 4:10

I also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife, in order to raise up a family for her late husband on his estate, so that the name of the deceased may not perish from his people and his place. Do you witness this today?”