John 4:18
Good News Translation
You have been married to five men, and the man you live with now is not really your husband. You have told me the truth."

New Revised Standard Version
for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!”

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

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Genesis 20:3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Genesis 34:2,7,8,31 And when Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite, the prince of that land, saw her, he was in love with her: and took her away, and lay with her, ravishing the virgin. . . .

Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousy. If a woman hath gone aside from her husband, and be defiled,

Ruth 4:10 And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.

Jeremiah 3:20 But as a woman that despiseth her lover, so hath the house of Israel despised me, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:32 But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.

Mark 10:12 And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Romans 7:3 Therefore, whilst her husband liveth, she shall be called an adulteress, if she be with another man: but if her husband be dead, she is delivered from the law of her husband: so that she is not an adulteress, if she be with another man.

1 Corinthians 7:10,11 But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband. . . .

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
17The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband. 18For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly. 19The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.…
Cross References
John 4:17
The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

John 4:19
The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

John 4:17
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