Malachi 2:16
“I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
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- Matt 5:31-32 : 31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- Luke 16:18 : 18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
- Matt 19:3-9 : 3 Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?” 4 He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, 5 and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 7 They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” 8 Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way. 9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
- Mark 10:2-9 : 2 Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them,“What did Moses command you?” 4 They said,“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” 5 But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. 6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, 8 and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 10 In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this. 11 So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
- Deut 24:1-4 : 1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house. 2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife. 3 If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies, 4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Prov 28:13 : 13 The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.
- Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
- Isa 59:6 : 6 Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.
- Mic 7:2-3 : 2 Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net. 3 They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.
- Isa 28:20 : 20 For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself.
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- Mal 2:9-157 verses83%
9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
10 The Rebellion of the People Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?
11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the LORD loves and has turned to a foreign god!
12 May the LORD cut off from the community of Jacob every last person who does this, as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies!
13 You also do this: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.
14 Yet you ask,“Why?” The LORD is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.
15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
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20 But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the LORD.
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1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.
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13 Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
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17 Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath– these are all things that I hate,’ says the LORD.
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18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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17 Resistance to the Lord through Self-deceit You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say,“How have we wearied him?” Because you say,“Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s opinion, and he delights in them,” or“Where is the God of justice?”
- Mark 10:11-122 verses72%
11 So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
- Deut 24:3-42 verses71%
3 If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Matt 19:5-62 verses71%
5 and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- Matt 19:8-92 verses71%
8 Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.
9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
- Matt 5:31-322 verses71%
31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’
32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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11 For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.
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6 “Indeed, the LORD will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.
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1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
- Josh 23:11-122 verses70%
11 Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!
12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
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8 She also saw that, because of wayward Israel’s adulterous worship of other gods, I sent her away and gave her divorce papers. But still her unfaithful sister Judah was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.
- 2 Sam 12:10-112 verses69%
10 So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!’
11 This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will go to bed with your wives in broad daylight!
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9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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32 It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.
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14 “Come back to me, my wayward sons,” says the LORD,“for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.
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7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
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22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
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14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
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2 Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute Plead earnestly with your mother(for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.
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10 So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.
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32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
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15 The LORD says to the people of Judah,“What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?
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9 Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.
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4 Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
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2 “Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
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15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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9 For I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, tell you what will happen. I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.’”
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19 I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.
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30 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the LORD says,‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!
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30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.