1 Corinthians 7:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if she has separated from him, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: What is this bill of divorce for your mother, by which I have dismissed her? Or who is my creditor, to whom I have sold you? Behold, you were sold by your iniquities, and I have dismissed your mother for your wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:1

"It is commonly said: 'If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.' So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Matthew 5:32

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.

Mark 10:12

And if a wife dismisses her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery."

Mark 10:2

And approaching, the Pharisees questioned him, testing him: "Is it lawful for a man to dismiss his wife?"

Luke 16:18

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

1 Corinthians 7:10

But to those who have been joined in matrimony, it is not I who commands you, but the Lord: a wife is not to separate from her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:12

Concerning the rest, I am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.

Deuteronomy 22:19

Moreover, they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, which he will give to the father of the girl, because he has committed slander, with a very wicked name, against a virgin of Israel. And he shall have her as a wife, and he cannot dismiss her throughout all the days of his life.