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What Jesus said about Marriage & Being a Spouse
Jesus on marriage as God made it from the beginning: male and female, husband and wife becoming one flesh, faithfulness, and His teaching on divorce.
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What God has joined together in marriage, humans should not separate.
Read the Scripture Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:9
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Matthew 19:6
6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:9
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Divorce is not a morally neutral escape from marital fidelity.
Read the Scripture Matthew 5:31–32; 19:3–9; Mark 10:2–12; Luke 16:18
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Matthew 5:31–32
31It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
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.
Matthew 19:3–9
3The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8He 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.
9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Mark 10:2–12
2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
3And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Luke 16:18
18Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
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Marriage is grounded in God's creation of male and female.
Read the Scripture Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6
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Matthew 19:4
4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
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A man leaves father and mother and is joined to his wife.
Read the Scripture Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7–8
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Matthew 19:5
5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Mark 10:7–8
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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Husband and wife become one flesh.
Read the Scripture Matthew 19:5–6; Mark 10:8
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Matthew 19:5–6
5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:8
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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Moses' divorce concession addressed hardness of heart and was not the creation ideal.
Read the Scripture Matthew 19:7–8; Mark 10:4–5
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Matthew 19:7–8
7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8He 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.
Mark 10:4–5
4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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Divorcing a spouse and marrying another can constitute adultery.
Read the Scripture Matthew 5:32; 19:9; Mark 10:11–12; Luke 16:18
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Matthew 5:32
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.
Matthew 19:9
9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Mark 10:11–12
11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Luke 16:18
18Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
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In Matthew, Jesus names fornication as the one exception in his teaching on divorce.
Read the Scripture Matthew 5:32; 19:9
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Matthew 5:32
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.
Matthew 19:9
9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
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A woman divorcing her husband and marrying another is also described as committing adultery.
Read the Scripture Mark 10:12
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Mark 10:12
12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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In the resurrection, ordinary earthly marriage does not continue in the same form.
Read the Scripture Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34–36
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Matthew 22:30
30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Mark 12:25
25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Luke 20:34–36
34And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
35But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.