Scriptures On Adultery & Divorce
Adultery And Divorce
Matthew 19:9 ESV — And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Romans 7:2 ESV — For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Luke 16:18 ESV — “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Proverbs 6:32 ESV — He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Exodus 20:14 ESV —“You shall not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:32 ESV — But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Romans 7:3 ESV — 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.
Matthew 5:31-32 ESV — “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Malachi 2:16 ESV — “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Leviticus 20:10 ESV — “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”
1 Corinthians 7:11 ESV — (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV — Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …
Ephesians 5:33 ESV — However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV — “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV — But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
Mark 10:11-12 ESV — And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Galatians 5:19 ESV — Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Hebrews 13:4 ESV — Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Matthew 19:3-9 ESV — And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …
Titus 1:6 ESV — If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
Jude 1:7 ESV — Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV — Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV — To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
Mark 10:12 ESV — And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Proverbs 5:20 ESV — Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Mark 10:11 ESV — And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
Acts 15:29 ESV — That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Mark 10:2-12 ESV — And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ …
Matthew 19:3 ESV — And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV — “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, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV — Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 1:1 ESV — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Corinthians 7:12 ESV — To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
Luke 11:4 ESV — And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV — He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 5:31 ESV — “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
Deuteronomy 24:1-22 ESV — “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, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance. “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken. …
Hebrews 10:19-20 ESV — Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
Luke 14:26 ESV — “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Mark 10:2 ESV — And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Romans 12:1-21 ESV — I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. …
Revelation 2:22 ESV — Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
Genesis 2:24 ESV — Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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