Matthew 19:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I say that if your wife has not committed some terrible sexual sin, you must not divorce her to marry someone else. If you do, you are unfaithful.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream and said, “You have taken a married woman, and for this you will die!”

2 Chronicles 21:11

Jehoram even built local shrines in the hills of Judah and let the people sin against the LORD by worshipping foreign gods.

Jeremiah 3:1

The LORD said to the people of Israel: If a divorced woman marries, can her first husband ever marry her again? No, because this would pollute the land. But you have more gods than a prostitute has lovers. Why should I take you back?

Ezekiel 16:15

You learnt that you were attractive enough to have any man you wanted, so you offered yourself to every passer-by.

Ezekiel 16:29

so you went after Babylonians. But those merchants could not satisfy you either.

Ezekiel 16:8

When I saw you again, you were old enough to have sex. So I covered your naked body with my own robe. Then I solemnly promised that you would belong to me and that I, the LORD God, would take care of you.

Matthew 19:10

The disciples said, “If that's how it is between a man and a woman, it's better not to get married.”

Matthew 19:8

Jesus replied, “You are so heartless! That's why Moses allowed you to divorce your wife. But from the beginning God did not intend it to be that way.

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you not to divorce your wife unless she has committed some terrible sexual sin. If you divorce her, you will cause her to be unfaithful, just as any man who marries her is guilty of taking another man's wife.

Luke 16:18

It is a terrible sin for a man to divorce his wife and marry another woman. It is also a terrible sin for a man to marry a divorced woman.

1 Corinthians 5:1

I have heard terrible things about some of you. In fact, you are behaving worse than the Gentiles. A man is even sleeping with his own stepmother.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife should stay married to her husband until he dies. Then she is free to marry again, but only to a man who is a follower of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself.