16 Bible Verses about divorce, amongst believers

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Matthew 19:3

And the Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Matthew 19:4-6

And he answering said, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them male and female? And He said: "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh." So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.

1 Corinthians 7:12-14

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she be satisfied to dwell with him, let him not put her away; and if a wife hath an unbelieving husband, and he be satisfied to dwell with her, let her not put her husband away. For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.

Mark 10:6-9

But, from the beginning of the creation, [God] made them male and female. "For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother; and the two shall become one flesh." So they are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder.

Luke 16:18

Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and he who marrieth a woman that hath been put away from her husband, committeth adultery.

Mark 10:11-12

And he saith to them, Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery against her. And if she put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Romans 7:2-3

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is released from the law which bound her to him. So then, if while her husband is living she connect herself with another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband die, she is no longer bound by that law, so that she will not be an adulteress, though she connect herself with another man.

Matthew 19:8

He saith to them, Moses, on account of your hardness of heart, allowed you m put away your wives; but in the beginning it was not so.

Mark 10:5

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

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