Matthew 5:32 - The Scriptures 2009

³² But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² But I tell you, Whoever dismisses and repudiates and divorces his wife, except on the grounds of unfaithfulness (sexual immorality), causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced commits adultery. [Deut. 24:1-4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³² but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Common English Bible

³² But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife except for sexual unfaithfulness forces her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² But I say to you, that anyone who will have dismissed his wife, except in the case of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever will have married her who has been dismissed commits adultery.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³² But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Matthew 5:32 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:9

“And it came to be, through her frivolous whoring, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and wood.

Matthew 5:28

“But I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 16:18

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

Luke 9:30

And see, two men were talking with Him, who were Mosheh and Ěliyahu,

Luke 9:35

And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!”

Romans 7:3

So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

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.

Deuteronomy 24:2

and if she left his house and went and became another man’s wife,