Mark 6:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

New Living Translation
John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry your brother’s wife.”

English Standard Version
For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Berean Study Bible
For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”

New American Standard Bible
For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

NASB 1995
For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

NASB 1977
For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Amplified Bible
For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful [under Mosaic Law] for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Christian Standard Bible
John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
John had been telling Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife!"

Good News Translation
John the Baptist kept telling Herod, "It isn't right for you to marry your brother's wife!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation
John had been telling Herod, "It's not right for you to be married to your brother's wife."

International Standard Version
John had been telling Herod, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

NET Bible
For John had repeatedly told Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

New King James Version
Because John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

King James 2000 Bible
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

New Heart English Bible
For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

World English Bible
For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

American King James Version
For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

American Standard Version
For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

A Faithful Version
For John had said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Darby Bible Translation
For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.

English Revised Version
For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Webster's Bible Translation
For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For Iohn sayd vnto Herod, It is not lawfull for thee to haue thy brothers wife.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For Iohn sayde vnto Herode: It is not lawful for thee to haue thy brothers wyfe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Neuertheles Ihon sayde vnto Herode It is not laufull for the to haue yi brothers wife.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Iohn sayd vnto Herode: It is not laufull for the to have thy brothers wyfe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother”;

Berean Literal Bible
For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Young's Literal Translation
for John said to Herod -- 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;'

Smith's Literal Translation
For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For John said to Herod, It is not permitted for you to have the wife of your brother.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For John was saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For Yohannan had said to Herodus, “It is not lawful for you to take the wife of your brother.”

Lamsa Bible
For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to marry your brother’s wife.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

Godbey New Testament
For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have the wife of thy brother.

Haweis New Testament
For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother?s wife.

Mace New Testament
upon which John told him, "it is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Weymouth New Testament
For John had repeatedly told Herod, "You have no right to be living with your brother's wife."

Worrell New Testament
For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

Worsley New Testament
For John had said to Herod, it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
















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