Biblical Parable about a wife that leaves and the husband excepts her back and forgives her for infidelity?

I thought that there was a parable about a wife who leaves her husband and goes off into the world and becomes consumed with sin and infidelity, and when she is broken, week and desolate, he takes her back. Does any one know where to find the scripture of this story?Biblical Parable about a wife that leaves and the husband excepts her back and forgives her for infidelity?
it wasnt a wife


it was about a son who asked his father for his portion of wealth and left then after spending all he came back to his father house who forgave him and took him backBiblical Parable about a wife that leaves and the husband excepts her back and forgives her for infidelity?
It is the account of the Old Testament prophet Hosea and his harlot wife, Gomer (wonderful name for a woman, by the way). God told Hosea to marry her and to take her back when she disgraced herself. This was to illustrate to Israel the relationship God had with them. He had bought them by bringing them out of Egypt. They were no longer slaves, but loved like a husband loves his wife. Also, it showed that, even though Israel had sold itself back into idolatrous slavery, God was still willing to buy them back. It really is a beautiful story to show how love means forgiveness.
One of the early writing prophets, Hosea used his own marital experience as a symbolic representation of God and Israel: God the husband, Israel the wife. Hosea's wife left him to go with other men; Israel left the Lord to go with other gods. Hosea searched for his wife, found her and brought her back; God would not abandon Israel and brought them back even though they had forsaken him.
think you have it confused with the prodigal son who takes his inheritance leaves spends it and does other things. Then he comes back and the father kills the fattened calf and has a feast to celebrate that his son came back
That's the central subject of the book of Hosea. It's not a parable; parables are not real stories and do not use proper names. Hosea's marriage was, however, symbolic of God for His people.
Yes, Hosea gives a description which is an anolog of God's people leaving God and becoming unfaithful , and yet God forgives them when they return.
Not in the Bible.


But it is in the Bible that infidelity is the only reason for a divorce. That should tell us that God does not like cheating between spouses.
It's not a parable.





It's what the book of Hosea is all about. The wife's name is Gomer.
You know i thought the point of that story was to uplift people. Why on Earth would you want one to do just the oppisite.
You may be referring to Gomer the wife of Hosea.





To understand more fully the connection between Hosea’s domestic affairs and Israel’s relationship with Jehovah, consider these words: “Jehovah went on to say to me: ‘Go once again, love a woman loved by a companion and committing adultery.’” (Hosea 3:1) Hosea complied with this command by repurchasing Gomer from the man with whom she had been living. Afterward, Hosea firmly admonished his wife: “For many days you will dwell as mine. You must not commit fornication, and you must not come to belong to another man.” (Hosea 3:2, 3) Gomer responded to the discipline, and Hosea renewed marital relations with her. How did this apply to God’s dealings with the people of Israel and Judah?


While exiles from Israel and Judah were captives in Babylon, God used his prophets to ‘speak to their heart.’ To receive divine mercy, his people had to manifest repentance and go back to their Husbandly Owner, as Gomer had returned to her husband. Then Jehovah would take his disciplined wifelike nation out of the Babylonian “wilderness” and bring her back to Judah and Jerusalem. (Hosea 2:14, 15) He fulfilled that promise in 537 B.C.E.


God also fulfilled this promise: “I shall certainly conclude a covenant in that day in connection with the wild beast of the field and with the flying creature of the heavens and the creeping thing of the ground, and the bow and the sword and war I shall break out of the land, and I will make them lie down in security.” (Hosea 2:18) The Jewish remnant who returned to their homeland lived in security, with nothing to fear from animals. This prophecy also had a fulfillment in 1919 C.E., when the remnant of spiritual Israel was freed from “Babylon the Great,” the world empire of false religion. They now dwell in security and enjoy life in a spiritual paradise with their companions, who hope to live forever on earth. Animalistic traits do not exist among these true Christians.—Revelation 14:8; Isaiah 11:6-9; Galatians 6:16.


Take the Lessons to Heart


God is merciful and compassionate, and that is how we should be. That is one lesson taught by the early chapters of Hosea. (Hosea 1:6, 7; 2:23) God’s willingness to extend mercy to repentant Israelites is in harmony with the inspired proverb: “He that is covering over his transgressions will not succeed, but he that is confessing and leaving them will be shown mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13) Also comforting to repentant wrongdoers are the psalmist’s words: “The sacrifices to God are a broken spirit; a heart broken and crushed, O God, you will not despise.”—Psalm 51:17.


Hosea’s prophecy highlights the compassion and mercy of the God we worship. Even if some deviate from his righteous ways, they can repent and turn around. If they do, Jehovah welcomes them. He showed mercy to repentant members of the nation of Israel, with which he had entered a figurative marriage. Though they disobeyed Jehovah and ‘pained the Holy One of Israel, he was merciful and kept remembering that they were flesh.’ (Psalm 78:38-41) Such mercy should move us to keep walking with our compassionate God, Jehovah.
No such parable.





You have mixed at least three quotes together to make one.





There is the story about the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32], who took his fathers money, left, spent it on lewdness and drunkenness, and then begged his fathers forgiveness when he came home. Of course, the father fully forgave him, which pissed of his brother!





I think you are right in thinking that this story applies to such a situation, but what needs to be understood is the REPENTENCE involved. That young man fully admitted his mistakes; he admitted them to his father AND TO GOD. The young man ';came to his senses';, which means that he was out of his mind to do what he did!





the point of the story is that God is willing to forgive us and accept us back IF we approach him with a repentant heart. And any man who tries to live a godly life MUST also forgive and accept his wayward wife IF she approaches him with a truly repentant heart.





[Repentance: being so very very VERY sorry for your sin that you will NEVER do that again!]





Paul makes some heavy statements to those married to unbelieving spouses:


[1 Corinthians 7:12-15]


“... If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances”





It is clear from this passage that in the case of a broken marriage, the ONE WHO LEAVES is the unbeliever.





and the famous


[Mark 10:11-12]


';Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.';