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Marrying A Divorced Person

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Luke 16:18

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

Matthew 5:32

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.

Romans 7:2

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.

Mark 10:12

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

1 Corinthians 7:10–11

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

Matthew 19:9

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.”

1 Corinthians 7:15

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.

Mark 10:11–12

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

Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Matthew 19:3–9

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:39

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.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

Mark 10:11

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

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Matthew 19:6

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

Colossians 3:20

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:31

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

James 1:1–27

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

John 8:31

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Matthew 22:1–46

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

Revelation 11:1–19

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:1

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;

Matthew 19:1–30

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

1 Timothy 3:2

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

1 Corinthians 6:16

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.”

Revelation 14:12

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Titus 1:6

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

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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