Cross references

John 4:18

In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

John 4:18 BSB

John 4:18 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 3:20 (5 votes) and Romans 7:3 (5 votes). 4 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 20 to Hebrews 13.

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Which verses does John 4:18 point to?

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  1. But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

  2. Romans 7:35 votes

    So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

  3. To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

  4. Mark 10:123 votes

    And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

  5. One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

  6. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

  7. When Jacob’s sons heard what had happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done. But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

  8. But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

  9. This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

  10. Ruth 4:102 votes

    Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

Which verses point to John 4:18?

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