50 Bible Verses About Divorce

““You shall not commit adultery.”

““‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.”

“A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.”

““Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: ‘If any man’s wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,”

“The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.”

“He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). is on his head.”

““But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.”

“But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.”

“These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.”

““You shall not commit adultery.”

“He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.”

“that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.”

“When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”

“About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.”

“Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.”

“A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.”

“Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.”

“For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.”

““They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.”

“I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.”

“When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.””

“Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.””

“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.”

““You have heard that it was said, TR adds “to the ancients”. ‘You shall not commit adultery;’Exodus 20:14”

““It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’Deuteronomy 24:1”

“For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9”

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”

“So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.””

“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.”

“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.””

“For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16 and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9”

“Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?””

“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.””

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.” Micah 7:6”

“Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.”

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20”

“When he had said these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.NU omits verse 29.”

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”Genesis 2:24”

“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”

“But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband”

“(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.”

““For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”Genesis 2:24”

“for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.”

“forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

“as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”