Mark 10:9
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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- Rom 7:1-3 : 1 The Believer’s Relationship to the Law Or do you not know, brothers and sisters(for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives? 2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage. 3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
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- Matt 19:3-108 verses93%
3Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”
4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
5and 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’?
6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”
8Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.
9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”
- Mark 10:5-84 verses89%
5But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.
6But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.
7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
- Mark 10:10-123 verses81%
10In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.
11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
- Eph 5:30-323 verses80%
30because we are members of his body.
31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
- Gen 2:23-253 verses80%
23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.
- 1 Cor 7:9-113 verses76%
9But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.
10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband
11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
- 1 Cor 6:15-173 verses75%
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”
17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.
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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.
- Matt 5:31-322 verses73%
31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’
32But 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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4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
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2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
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1If 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.
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34So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.
35But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
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17They lock tightly together, one to the next; they cling together and cannot be separated.
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15No 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.
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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2Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
- 1 Cor 7:4-52 verses69%
4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
31Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
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14“You shall not commit adultery.
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27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
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11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
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18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
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18You must not commit adultery.
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10You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.
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14Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?