Key Scriptures about divorce, marriage, separation between spouses, and remarriage.
10 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall be [the] one flesh.
Deuteronomy 24:1–4
1 If a man takes a wife and becomes her husband, and she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found something displeasing in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 and she leaves his house, goes away, and becomes another man's wife, 3 but the latter husband hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband who took her as his wife dies, – 4 then her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again as his wife after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord [your God]; and you shall not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Malachi 2:14–16
14 You will say, “Why?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your lawful wife. 15 Did He not make them one, with a remnant of the Spirit? And what does this one seek? Godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. 16 If you hate her, let her go, says the Lord God of Israel; for violence covers his garment, says the Lord of hosts. So guard your spirit and do not deal treacherously.
Matthew 5:31–32
31 It was said, “Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.” 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on account of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 19:3–9
3 The Pharisees came to Him, testing Him, and said to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” 4 He answered them, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command that a certificate of divorce be given and that she be divorced?” 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so; 9 and I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, if she is not guilty of sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Mark 10:2–12
2 The Pharisees came and asked Him, testing Him, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.” 5 Jesus answered them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts, he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, 8 and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” 10 In the house, His disciples asked Him again about the same matter. 11 And He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18
Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Romans 7:2–3
2 For a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning her husband. 3 Accordingly, while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes another man's wife; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress by becoming another man's wife.
1 Corinthians 7:10–16
10 To the married I give this command—not I, but the Lord: a wife must not leave her husband—11 but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband—and a husband must not divorce his wife. 12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her; 13 and if a woman has a husband who is an unbeliever and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 15 But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or sister is not enslaved in such circumstances; God has called you to live in peace. 16 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your 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 marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.
