Bible Verses about “grounds for divorce”
The Bible contains 22 verses about grounds for divorce across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”
“But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband”
“A 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.”
“You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.”
“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.”
“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."”
“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."”
“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?'”
“He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,”
“Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.”
“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.”
“"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"”
“They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"”
“When 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.”
“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: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.”
“When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].”
“If 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;”