Mark 10:9
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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Mark 10:7
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
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 be joined 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.”
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
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.
Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
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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.
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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 19:7
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate 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.”
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.
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Romans 7:2
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
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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 certificate of divorce, 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 certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, 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 she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
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 certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.
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Romans 7:3
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
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