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Scriptures on divorce
and remarriage
(King James Version):
And this have
ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with
crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth
it with good will at your hand. Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath
been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And
did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one?
That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore
take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of
his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:
for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore
take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. -- Malachi 2:13-16
It hath been
said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of
divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving
for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever
shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. -- Matthew 5:31-32
The Pharisees
also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to
put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye
not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more
twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder.
They say unto
him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her
away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered
you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto
you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall
marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away
doth commit adultery.
His disciples
say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to
marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to
whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and
there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's
sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. -- Matthew 19:3-12
And the
Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his
wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command
you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put
her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart
he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them
male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more
twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder. And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
And he saith
unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth
adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married
to another, she committeth adultery. -- Mark 10:2-12
And he said
unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your
hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight
of God. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of
God is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and
earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Whosoever
putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever
marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery. -- Luke
16:15-18
For the woman
which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth;
but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then
if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called
an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that
she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. -- Romans 7:2-3
Know ye not
that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers
of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. -- 1 Corinthians
6:9-10
This I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these
are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye
would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works
of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and
such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. --
Galatians 5:16-21
Also see 1
Corinthians, Chapter 7.
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