Bible Verses about โsecond marriageโ
The Bible contains 34 verses about second marriage across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โLet marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.โ
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
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
โFor 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.โ
โThe woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.โ
โBut 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.โ
โFor how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?โ
โFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our 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
โSo that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."โ
โand 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?'โ
โHe answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,โ
โTwo are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.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
โFor if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn't have another to lift him up.โ
โIf a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.โ
โfor God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,โ
โAgain, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?โ
โHe 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.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
โPharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"โ
โThey asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"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
โTherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.โ
โI tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"โ
โIf he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.โ
โIf a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;โ
โBetter is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.โ
โFor out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.โ
โI saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.โ
โThere was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.โ
