Divorce
The dissolution of marriage, addressed with gravity in Scripture. Malachi 2:16 expresses God's attitude: 'I hate divorce.' Jesus traced divorce's allowance to 'hardness of heart' (Matthew 19:8) and taught that 'what God has joined together, let no one separate' (Matthew 19:6). He permitted divorce only in cases of sexual immorality (Matthew 19:9). Paul addressed additional situations where an unbelieving spouse departs (1 Corinthians 7:15). While divorce falls short of God's ideal, Scripture also shows God's compassion for those in broken marriages. God himself used divorce language when describing his relationship with unfaithful Israel (Jeremiah 3:8).
Verses about Divorce
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Imamat 21:14
A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
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Imamat 22:13
But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of h…
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Bilangan 30:9
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
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Ulangan 24:1
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her…
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Ulangan 24:3
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latte…
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Yesaya 50:1
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Be…
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Yeremia 3:8
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treache…
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Matius 5:31
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
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Matius 5:32
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall …
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Matius 19:7
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
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Markus 10:4
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.