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Scripture Summary
Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage
| Genesis 2:24 |
A man … shall cleave to
his wife; and they shall be one flesh. |
| Isa 50:1,2 |
God gives Israel ‘bill of
divorce’ (but restores all of Israel in the end times, Rev.) |
| Eccl 5:4-6 |
Can’t say that
a vow was a
‘mistake’ or ‘error’. |
| Mal 2:14-16 |
God hates divorce.
Considers marriage a ‘covenant’. |
| Hosea 1:2,3; 3:1;
13:9; 14:4-8 |
Hosea redeems and restores
adulterous Gomer. |
| Matt 5:32 |
Whoever divorces a spouse
‘causes
them to commit adultery’ and
Whoever marries that spouse
‘commits adultery’ |
| Matt 19:3-6 |
v4,8 intention from the
creation v5 man & wife become ‘one flesh’
v6 no longer two, but one; let not man separate |
| Matt 19:7,8 |
v8 Divorce - "because of
the Hardness of your heart" |
| Matt 19:9 |
Whoever divorces
and marries another
commits adultery
(Except
for the cause of fornication)
Whoever marries a divorced person
commits adultery |
| Mark 10:1-9 |
v5 Divorce - Hardness of the
heart v8 man & wife become ‘one flesh’
v9 let not man separate |
| Mark 10:11,12 |
Whoever
divorces and marries another
commits adultery |
| Luke
16:18 |
Whoever divorces
and marries another commits adultery Whoever
marries a divorced person
commits adultery |
| John 4:5-42 |
Woman taken in adultery not
condemned, "go and sin no more" |
| Rom 7:1-3 |
Death releases from marriage
covenant |
| 1 Cor
7:8,9 |
To the unmarried (cp. v.10,11) &
widows let them marry. It is better to marry than to burn [with passion] |
| 7:10 |
To the married I command, yet not I, but
the Lord Let not the wife divorce her husband |
| 7:11 |
If she divorces 1) Remain unmarried
2) Be reconciled |
| 7:12-14 |
Believer with an
unbelieving spouse commanded Not to Divorce the
unbelieving spouse |
| 7:15, 16 |
If the unbelieving
Spouse leaves [Divorces] the Believer, Let the unbelieving spouse depart
Believer is not under bondage (servitude), but called to ‘peace’. see v39 for
reference to ‘liberty’. |
| 7:25,26 |
Concerning Virgins, male & female - it
is good to remain a virgin because of the present distressing times |
| 7:27 |
But, bound to a wife, do not seek to be loosed. See v10 Loosed from the bonds of
marriage (unbound, i.e. unmarried, bachelor/widower ‘Nicol, Expos. Gk Test.; also New
Int’l Comm.) Do not seek a wife. [some believe
this can also refer to divorced persons] |
| 7:28 |
But, if the unmarried does marry, or the
virgin female marries, they have not sinned. [except if the divorce was 'illegitimate',
see Matt 5 etc.] |
| 1 Cor 7:39 |
The wife is bound by the law as long as
her husband lives. If the husband is dead, she is at liberty
to be married (a believer). |
| Eph.
5:31,32 |
v31 A man … shall cleave to his wife;
and they shall be one flesh. v32 but I speak concerning Christ and
the church |
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