“But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Jesus' teaching on divorce locates the moral weight not in the certificate but in the reality of the marriage — divorce that is not for sexual immorality does not dissolve the marriage in God's sight; it only creates the situation where both parties inevitably enter adulterous relationships. The sexual immorality exception (porneia) acknowledges that some situations are already broken in ways that make this teaching inapplicable. Genesis 2:24 says the two shall become one flesh — Jesus' divorce teaching is rooted in the creation design, which Moses' provision accommodated without establishing as the ideal.
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