Matthew 19:9

Good News Translation

I tell you, then, that any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, commits adultery if he marries some other woman.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, “You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married.”

2 Chronicles 21:11

He even built pagan places of worship in the Judean highlands and led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to sin against the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:1

The Lord says, “If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!

Jeremiah 3:8

Judah also saw that I divorced Israel and sent her away because she had turned from me and had become a prostitute. But Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, was not afraid. She too became a prostitute

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.

Ezekiel 16:29

You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either.”

Ezekiel 16:8

“As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

Matthew 19:10

His disciples said to him, “If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Matthew 19:8

Jesus answered, “Moses gave you permission to divorce your wives because you are so hard to teach. But it was not like that at the time of creation.

Matthew 5:32

But now I tell you: if a man divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, then he is guilty of making her commit adultery if she marries again; and the man who marries her commits adultery also.

Luke 16:18

“Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

Now, it is actually being said that there is sexual immorality among you so terrible that not even the heathen would be guilty of it. I am told that a man is sleeping with his stepmother!

1 Corinthians 7:39

A married woman is not free as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, then she is free to be married to any man she wishes, but only if he is a Christian.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.