21 Bible Verses about divorce, amongst believers

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

Pharisees came to him. They tested him, asking: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?

Later if you are not happy with the woman you may divorce her. She may go free. But you have slept with her as your wife, so you cannot sell her as a slave or make her into your own slave.

When a man marries a woman and later decides he does not love her because he found something he does not like about her he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female? For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined together, let no man pull apart (separate)!

To the others, I speak and not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him he should not divorce her. And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.

God made male and female from the beginning of creation. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife. The two shall become one flesh. They are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
That which God has joined together let not man take apart (separate).

If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife.

This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.

A man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery. The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. [Jesus continued to tell illustrations.]

Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

He said: He who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. If she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh.

Law binds the married woman to her husband while he lives. But if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

He answered: Moses allowed you to send your wives away because of your hardness of heart. It was not allowed from the beginning.

The wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

He wrote this commandment because of your hard hearts, Jesus replied.

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her when she is divorced, commits adultery.

If the unbelieving leave, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases for God has called us to peace.

Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, was not afraid. She also acted like a prostitute.