Matthew 19:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ Now I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ I say to you: whoever dismisses (repudiates, divorces) his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Common English Bible

⁹ I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And I say to you, that whoever will have separated from his wife, except because of fornication, and who will have married another, commits adultery, and whoever will have married her who has been separated, commits adultery."

Matthew 19:9 Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “Behold, you are as good as dead, because of the woman whom you have taken—since she is a married woman.”

2 Chronicles 21:11

Moreover, he built high places on the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray.

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to be with another man, will he return to her again? Would not such a land be totally polluted? You are a prostitute with many lovers. Now are you returning to Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 3:8

I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce. Yet, unfaithful Judah, her sister, did not fear. Instead she also went and committed adultery.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a harlot. You poured out your enticements on everyone who passed by—they were his.

Ezekiel 16:29

So you multiplied your harlotry toward the land of merchants—Chaldea—yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:8

“Again I passed by and saw you, and behold, you were truly at the time of love. I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says Adonai. “So you became Mine.

Matthew 19:10

The disciples said to Him, “If that’s the case for a man and his wife, it’s better not to marry!”

Matthew 19:8

Yeshua said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that among you there is sexual immorality, and such immorality as is not even among the pagans—that someone has his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wishes—only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have the rights to her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have the rights to his own body, but the wife.