Matthew 5:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

I say

Matthew 5:28

Luke 9:30

Whosoever

General references

Mark 10:4

Luke 16:18

Bible References

I say

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

And lo, two men were speaking together with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

Whosoever

He saith to them -- 'Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

And Jesus answering said to them, 'For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

'Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

General references

and they said, 'Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

'Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.