Matthew 19:9

New American Bible - revised edition

I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him: You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she has a husband.

2 Chronicles 21:11

He also set up high places in the mountains of Judah, prostituting the inhabitants of Jerusalem, leading Judah astray. Jehoram Punished.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and then becomes the wife of another, Can she return to the first? Would not this land be wholly defiled? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers, and yet you would return to me!—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your own beauty and used your renown to serve as a prostitute. You poured out your prostitution on every passerby—let it be his.

Ezekiel 16:29

You increased your prostitutions again, now going to Chaldea, the land of traders; but despite this, you were still not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and saw that you were now old enough for love. So I spread the corner of my cloak over you to cover your nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into covenant with you—oracle of the Lord God—and you became mine.

Matthew 19:10

[His] disciples said to him, “If that is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Matthew 19:8

He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Teaching About Oaths.

Luke 16:18

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans—a man 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 be married to whomever she wishes, provided that it be in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.