Matthew 5:32

World English Bible (2000)

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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  • Luke 16:18 : 18 Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 19:8-9 : 8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
  • Mark 10:5-9 : 5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. 7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." 10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. 11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. 12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
  • 1 Cor 7:4 : 4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

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  • Matt 5:31
    89%

    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

  • Matt 19:3-10
    8 verses
    89%

    3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

    4He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

    8He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

    9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

    10His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Luke 16:18
    87%

    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:7-12
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    86%

    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

    8and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

    10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'

    28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Deut 24:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

    4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

  • Matt 5:33
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    33"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • Mark 10:4-5
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    4They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

    5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  • Deut 5:18
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    18"Neither shall you commit adultery.

  • Eph 5:31-32
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    31"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

    32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Num 5:12
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    12"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

  • Mal 2:16
    71%

    16For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

  • Exod 20:14
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    14"You shall not commit adultery.

  • Lev 20:10
    70%

    10"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

  • Prov 6:32
    70%

    32He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

  • Num 30:9
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    9"But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • Mark 10:2
    70%

    2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

  • Luke 20:34
    70%

    34Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

  • Num 5:20
    69%

    20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • John 4:18
    69%

    18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

  • Jer 3:1
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    1"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

  • Matt 5:21
    68%

    21"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'

  • Jas 2:11
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    11For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

  • Num 5:29
    68%

    29"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

  • John 8:4
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    4they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

  • Rev 2:22
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    22Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.