16 Bible Verses about divorce, amongst believers

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Matthew 19:3

And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting 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, "Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,' and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?" so that 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 has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not leave her. And, if any wife has an unbelieving husband, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; else your children are unclean; but as it is they are holy.

Mark 10:6-9

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

Luke 16:18

"Every one who puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband, commits adultery.

Mark 10:11-12

And He saith to them, "Whosoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her; and, if she herself, having put away her husband, marries another, she commits adultery."

Romans 7:2-3

For the married woman has been bound by law to the living husband; but, if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of the husband. So, then, if, while the husband is living, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but, if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

Matthew 19:8

He saith to them, "Moses, in view of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so.

Mark 10:5

But Jesus said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this commandment.

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