Bible Verses about โdivorce and remarriageโ
The Bible contains 19 verses about divorce and remarriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โYet 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.โ
โTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.โ
โ(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.โ
โBut to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husbandโ
โA wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.โ
โbut 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.โ
โI 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."โ
โEveryone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.โ
โFor 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.โ
โ"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'โ
โIf a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."โ
โFor 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.โ
โHe said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.โ
โWhen a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.โ
โher 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: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.โ
โSo 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.โ
โWhen she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].โ
โIf the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;โ
โOr don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?โ
