Matthew 19:9

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“I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife except on the grounds of sexual immorality and then marries another woman, commits adultery.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “Listen! You're going to die because the woman you've taken is already married—she has a husband.”

2 Chronicles 21:11

He also built high places on the mountains of Judah; he made the people of Jerusalem unfaithful to God and led Judah away from him.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she goes and marries someone else, could he ever go back to her? Wouldn't the country be made totally unclean by this? But you have done worse by prostituting yourselves with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me? declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that because of everything unfaithful Israel had done on committing adultery, I sent her away, giving her a certificate of divorce. But her unfaithful sister Judah wasn't afraid and prostituted herself too.

Ezekiel 16:15

You were so proud of your beauty that you were unfaithful to me. You thought that because you were so famous you could prostitute yourself and sleep with anyone who passed by. They took your beautiful body for themselves.

Ezekiel 16:29

So you took your promiscuous behavior to Babylonia, the country of merchants, but even then you weren't satisfied!

Ezekiel 16:8

When I passed by again, I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for lovemaking. So I spread my robe over you and covered up your naked body. I committed myself to you and made a solemn agreement with you, and made you mine, declares the Lord God.

Matthew 19:10

“If that's the situation between husband and wife, it's better not to marry!” his disciples told him.

Matthew 19:8

“Because of your hard-hearted attitude Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it wasn't like that in the beginning,” Jesus replied.

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you that any man who divorces his wife except for sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Luke 16:18

Any man who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and a man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

I hear reports that sexual immorality is happening among you, immorality that even the foreigners don't practice. A man is living with 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 marry anyone she wants in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife's body doesn't just belong to her, but her husband; and similarly the husband's body doesn't just belong to him but his wife.