John 4:18
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18 for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
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Jeremiah 3:20
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20 But you have been unfaithful to me, you people of Israel!
You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”
1 Corinthians 7:10-11
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10 But for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord.[a] A wife must not leave her husband. 11 But if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him. And the husband must not leave his wife.
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- 7:10 See Matt 5:32; 19:9; Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18.
Mark 10:12
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12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.”
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Romans 7:3
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3 So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.
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Ezekiel 16:32
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32 Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
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Ruth 4:10
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10 And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. You are all witnesses today.”
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Numbers 5:29
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29 “This is the ritual law for dealing with suspicion. If a woman goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,
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Genesis 34:31
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31 “But why should we let him treat our sister like a prostitute?” they retorted angrily.
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Genesis 34:7-8
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7 Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the field as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob’s family,[a] something that should never be done.
8 Hamor tried to speak with Jacob and his sons. “My son Shechem is truly in love with your daughter,” he said. “Please let him marry her.
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- 34:7 Hebrew a disgraceful thing in Israel.
Genesis 34:2
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2 But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.
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Genesis 20:3
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3 But that night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are a dead man, for that woman you have taken is already married!”
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Hebrews 13:4
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4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
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