8 Bible Verses about Divorce Permitted

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'

They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?"

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,

He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.