Deuteronomy 22:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,’

Cross References

Exodus 20:16

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 18:21

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

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Deuteronomy 22:13

“If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,

Deuteronomy 22:15

then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

Deuteronomy 22:19

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.