MATTHEW 19:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. The dominical ruling on divorce: the only ground for divorce that does not produce the adultery of remarriage is sexual immorality (porneia). The except clause — the Matthean exception — limits but does not abolish Jesus' general prohibition on divorce-and-remarriage. The context is the one who divorces and marries another: the one who divorces on other grounds and remarries commits adultery.
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