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Bible Verses About Divorce

12 verses from the World English Bible, quoted word for word.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Malachi 2:16
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  1. So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
    Matthew 19:6
  2. He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
    Matthew 19:8-9
  3. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
    Mark 10:9
  4. But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
    1 Corinthians 7:10-11
  5. Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
    1 Corinthians 7:15
  6. but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
    Matthew 5:32
  7. He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
    Psalms 147:3
  8. For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
    Isaiah 54:5
  9. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
    Romans 8:1
  10. Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
    Psalms 34:18
  11. “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
    Isaiah 43:18-19

Verses quoted from the World English Bible (public domain).

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