But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.
The Pharisees also came to Him, tempting Him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
He answered, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
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’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
They said to Him, “Then why did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to send her away?”
He said to them, “Moses, for the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
Now to the married I command, not I, but the Lord, do not let the wife depart from her husband.
But if she departs, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And do not let the husband divorce his wife.
To the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife who consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
And if the woman has an unbelieving husband who consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.
But if the unbeliever departs, let that one depart. A brother or a sister is not bound in such cases. God has called us to peace.
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
But as God has given to every man and as the Lord has called every man, so let him walk. This I command in all churches.
Let each man remain in the same condition in which he was called.
Brothers, let every man, in whatever condition he is called, remain there with God.
Yet you say, “Why?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.
For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that He hates divorce; for it covers one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of Hosts.
Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.