9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
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But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)We have here the law of Christ in the case of divorce, occasioned, as some other declarations of his will, by a dispute with the Pharisees . So patiently did he endure the contradiction of sinners, that he turned it into instructions to his own disciples! Observe, here I. The case proposed by the Pharisees (Matt. 19:3); Isa. it lawful for a man to put away his wife ? This they asked, tempting him,…
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