Divorce

Matthew 5

³¹ _h "It was also said, _n 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' ³² _o But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and _p whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 5:27
   "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 19:7
   They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?
   Jeremiah 3:1
   If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
   Deuteronomy 24:1
   When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 24:1
   When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 19:9
   And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.
   Mark 10:11 - 12
   And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
   Luke 16:18
   Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
   1 Corinthians 7:10 - 11
   To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 7:3
   Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.