Truth From the Bible About Divorce
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to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife
should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain
unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband
should not divorce his wife. But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that
if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to
live with him, he must not divorce her. And a woman who has an
unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not
send her husband away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified
through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her
believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now
they are holy. Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the
brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has
called us to peace. For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save
your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save
your wife? Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has
called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the
churches. Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?" And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? "So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away? He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."
Matthew 19:3-9
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