Deuteronomy 24:1–4; Matthew 19:9; Mark 10:11–12; Luke 16:18

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Deuteronomy 24:1–4

Laws Concerning Divorce

1 f“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 2 and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 4 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.


Matthew 19:9

9 And I say to you: mwhoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”1


Mark 10:11–12

11 And he said to them, h“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”


Luke 16:18

Divorce and Remarriage

18 t“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.