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Divorce And Remarriage
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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.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
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.”
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — 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.
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.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ — read the full passage →
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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 →
So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
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 →
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — read the full passage →
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — 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. — read the full passage →
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” — 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.
When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. — 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 →
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.
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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 →
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.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
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. — read the full passage →
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
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 →
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 →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her 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 →
Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →
Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — 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 overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — read the full passage →
Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.” — read the full passage →
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →
her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →
When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →
“You shall not commit adultery.
When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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