DIVORCE

Passages on this topic · 81

• Exodus 21:7

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:8

  If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

• Exodus 21:9

  If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

• Exodus 21:11

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Deuteronomy 21:10

  When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and desire to take her as your wife;

• Deuteronomy 21:12

  then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  She shall take the clothing of her captivity off of herself, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 21:14

  It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

• Deuteronomy 24:1

  When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

• Deuteronomy 24:2

  When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

• Deuteronomy 24:3

  If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

• Deuteronomy 24:4

  her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

• Ezra 10:1

  Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

• Ezra 10:2

  Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

• Ezra 10:3

  Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

• Ezra 10:4

  Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”

• Ezra 10:5

  Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

• Ezra 10:6

  Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

• Ezra 10:7

  They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;

• Ezra 10:8

  and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

• Ezra 10:9

  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

• Ezra 10:10

  Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

• Ezra 10:11

  Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

• Ezra 10:12

  Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

• Ezra 10:13

  But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

• Ezra 10:14

  Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

• Ezra 10:16

  The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

• Nehemiah 13:23

  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

• Nehemiah 13:24

  and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

• Nehemiah 13:25

  I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

• Nehemiah 13:26

  Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

• Nehemiah 13:27

  Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

• Nehemiah 13:28

  One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

• Nehemiah 13:29

  Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

• Nehemiah 13:30

  Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

• Esther 1:12

  But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

• Esther 1:13

  Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

• Esther 1:14

  and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

• Esther 1:15

  “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

• Esther 1:18

  Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

• Esther 1:19

  “If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

• Esther 1:20

  When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

• Esther 1:21

  This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• Esther 1:22

  for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

• Isaiah 50:1

  Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

• Isaiah 54:4

  “Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.

• Jeremiah 3:1

  “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 3:8

  I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

• Micah 2:9

  You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

• Malachi 2:14

  Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

• Malachi 2:15

  Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

• Malachi 2:16

  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.

• Matthew 5:31

  “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

• Matthew 5:32

  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 19:3

  Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

• Matthew 19:4

  He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Matthew 19:5

  and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

• Matthew 19:6

  So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

• Matthew 19:7

  They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”

• Matthew 19:8

  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.

• Matthew 19:9

  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 19:10

  His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

• Matthew 19:11

  But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

• Matthew 19:12

  For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

• Mark 10:2

  Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

• Luke 16:18

  Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

• 1 Corinthians 7:10

  But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband

• 1 Corinthians 7:11

  (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 7:12

  But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

• 1 Corinthians 7:13

  The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  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 7:16

  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

• 1 Corinthians 7:17

  Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.