Matthew 19:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.”

2 Chronicles 21:11

Moreover he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, and made Judah go astray.

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.

Ezekiel 16:29

You multiplied your harlotry also with the trading land of Chaldea; and even with this you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:8

“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Matthew 19:10

The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

Matthew 19:8

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

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Luke 16:18

“Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for 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. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.