But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause.
And he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female
and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a document—a certificate of divorce—and to divorce her?”
He said to them, “Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this.
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
To the married I command—not I, but the Lord—a wife must not separate from her husband.
But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
Now to the rest I say—not the Lord—if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us in peace.
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live—and thus I order in all the churches.
Each one in the calling in which he was called—in this he should remain.
Each one in the situation in which he was called, brothers—in this he should remain with God.
But you ask, “For what reason?” Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she is your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
Did not one God make them? But a remnant of the spirit is his. And what does the one God desire? An offspring of God. You must be attentive to your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
“For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and he who covers his clothing with violence,” says Yahweh of hosts. “You must be attentive to your spirit and you must not be unfaithful.”