Matthew 19:9

First Nations Version

“But here is how I will answer you,” he told them. “Any man who sends his wife away and marries another is guilty of being unfaithful to her, unless she was the one who was not faithful.”

Cross References

Matthew 5:32

Let me tell you why. Anyone who puts away his wife without giving her divorce papers makes her unfaithful when she remarries, unless she was unfaithful already. Then anyone who marries her is having sexual relations with another man’s wife.” In those days men would “put away” their wives without divorcing them, leaving them destitute and unable to properly remarry.

Luke 16:18

“Whoever sends his wife away, without properly divorcing her, and marries another is guilty of being unfaithful to his first wife. Anyone who then marries her is guilty of marrying another man’s wife.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound by the law of marriage to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is then free to marry whomever she desires, but only to one who belongs to our Honored Chief.

1 Corinthians 5:1

I have heard from many that there is an impurity among your sacred family members, the kind of impurity not found even among the Outside Nations. A man is having relations with his stepmother, the wife of his father.

1 Corinthians 7:4

In this matter neither wife nor husband have the right over their own bodies. Their bodies belong to each other.

Matthew 19:8

“It is because of your cold hearts of stone that Drawn from the Water (Moses) permitted this,” he answered, “but this was not the Great Spirit’s original plan for men and women.

Matthew 19:10

The ones who walked the road with him shook their heads and said, “If this is so, between husband and wife, then it must be better not to marry.”