This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
1 Corinthians 7:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband #– #and a husband is not to divorce his wife. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if she does [separate from and divorce him], let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband. And [I charge] the husband [also] that he should not put away or divorce his wife. American Standard Version (1901) (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife. Common English Bible but if she does leave him, then she should stay single or be reconciled to her husband. And a man shouldn’t divorce his wife. Catholic Public Domain Version But if she has separated from him, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. |
This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.
If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners – can you return to me? This is the Lord’s declaration.
But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Also, if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’
Some Pharisees came to test him, asking, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? ’
‘Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
To the married I give this command #– #not I, but the Lord #– #a wife is not to leave her husband.
But I (not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.