Luke 16:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ Everyone putting away his wife and marrying another commits adultery. And everyone marrying her who is put away from her husband commits adultery.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ Whoever divorces (dismisses and repudiates) his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Any man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and a man who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been divorced by her husband commits adultery.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery.

Luke 16:18 Cross References

Matthew 19:9

“And I say to you, whoever puts away his wife, except on the ground of whoring, and marries another, commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been put away commits adultery.”

Luke 16:19

“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.