Divorce

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.