32But 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.
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So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. …
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-32)We have here an exposition of the seventh commandment, given us by the same hand that made the law, and therefore was fittest to be the interpreter of it: it is the law against uncleanness, which fitly follows upon the former; that laid a restraint upon sinful passions, this upon sinful appetites, both which ought always to be under the government of reason and conscience, and if indulged, are equ…
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