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Matthew 19:9 ESV / 212 helpful votes And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”Matthew 5:32 ESV / 204 helpful votes But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 160 helpful votes But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.1 Corinthians 7:10-11 ESV / 137 helpful votes To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.Mark 10:11 ESV / 133 helpful votes And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,Luke 16:18 ESV / 122 helpful votes “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 121 helpful votes A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 117 helpful votes “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Matthew 19:6 ESV / 99 helpful votes So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 89 helpful votes “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, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, 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, 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.Genesis 2:24 ESV / 84 helpful votes Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 77 helpful votes Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …Romans 7:2 ESV / 77 helpful votes For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.Romans 7:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.