Matthew 19:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Luke 16:18

‘Everyone   who divorces   his wife and marries another woman commits adultery,   and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound  as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants #– #only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality  among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated  among the Gentiles   #– #a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

Jeremiah 3:8

I  observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce.  Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, ‘You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.’

Ezekiel 16:29

So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea,  the land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!

Ezekiel 16:15

‘ “But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame.  You lavished your sexual favours on everyone who passed by.  Your beauty became his.

Jeremiah 3:1

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   – can you return to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

Ezekiel 16:8

‘ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness.  I pledged myself to you,  entered into a covenant with you #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #and you became mine.

2 Chronicles 21:11

Jehoram also built high places  in the hills  of Judah, and he caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves,  and he led Judah astray.

Matthew 19:8

He told them, ‘Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

Matthew 19:10

His disciples  said to him, ‘If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry.’