16 Bible Verses about divorce, amongst believers

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Matthew 19:3

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

Matthew 19:4-6

He answered and said to them: Have you not read that the Creator, at the beginning, created them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh? So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder.

1 Corinthians 7:12-14

But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; for if not, then are your children unclean; but now 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 mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh. So, then, they are no longer two, but one flesh.read more.
Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man put asunder.

Luke 16:18

Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is divorced, commits adultery.

Mark 10:11-12

And he said to them: Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if a woman puts away her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery.

Romans 7:2-3

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then, if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if her husband die, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Matthew 19:8

He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so.

Mark 10:5

And Jesus answered and said to them: On account of the hardness of your hearts, he wrote this commandment for you.

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