Matthew 19:9

Tree of Life Version

Now I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “Behold, you are as good as dead, because of the woman whom you have taken—since she is a married woman.”

2 Chronicles 21:11

Moreover, he built high places on the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray.

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to be with another man, will he return to her again? Would not such a land be totally polluted? You are a prostitute with many lovers. Now are you returning to Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 3:8

I noted that when backsliding Israel committed adultery I sent her away and gave her a certificate of divorce. Yet, unfaithful Judah, her sister, did not fear. Instead she also went and committed adultery.

Ezekiel 16:15

“But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a harlot. You poured out your enticements on everyone who passed by—they were his.

Ezekiel 16:29

So you multiplied your harlotry toward the land of merchants—Chaldea—yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:8

“Again I passed by and saw you, and behold, you were truly at the time of love. I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says Adonai. “So you became Mine.

Matthew 19:10

The disciples said to Him, “If that’s the case for a man and his wife, it’s better not to marry!”

Matthew 19:8

Yeshua said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Luke 16:18

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that among you there is sexual immorality, and such immorality as is not even among the pagans—that someone has 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 anyone she wishes—only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have the rights to her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have the rights to his own body, but the wife.