16 Bible Verses about divorce, amongst believers

Most Relevant Verses

Matthew 19:3

And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him; Is it lawful for a man to send away his wife for any cause?

Matthew 19:4-6

And He responding said to them, Have you not read, that the one having made them from the beginning made them male and female? And He said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and they two shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh: therefore what God joined together, let no man separate.

1 Corinthians 7:12-14

But I say to the rest, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is willing to live with him, let him not send her away. And if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, let her not send away her husband. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the brother. Since then your children are unclean; but now they are holy.

Mark 10:6-9

But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and they two shall be one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
And what God joined together, let no man separate.

Luke 16:18

Every one sending away his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery; and the one marrying her who has been sent away by her husband commits adultery.

Mark 10:11-12

Whosoever may send away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery unto her. And if she having sent away her husband, may marry another, she commits adultery.

Romans 7:2-3

For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband. Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.

Matthew 19:8

He says to them, Moses on account of the hardness of your heart permitted you to send away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Mark 10:5

Jesus said to them, On account of the hardness of your heart he wrote this commandment to you.

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