Marriage After Divorce

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 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.

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

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

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — 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?” — read the full passage →

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.