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Greek

3080. lusis -- a loosing (by divorce)
... a release, separation. From luo; a loosening, ie (specially), divorce -- to be loosed.
see GREEK luo. (lusin) -- 1 Occurrence. 3079, 3080. lusis. 3081 . ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Malachi 2:16
For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, said the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
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1 Corinthians 7:15
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
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Matthew 19:3-9
The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
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Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
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Matthew 19:6
Why they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
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1 Corinthians 7:10-16
And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
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Matthew 5:31
It has been said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce:
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Matthew 5:31-32
It has been said, Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce:
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
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Mark 10:2-12
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
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Library

The Sacrament of Marriage; Marriage Indissoluble; the World's Law ...
... [2092] For this is preserved in the case of Christ and the Church; so that, as a
living one with a living one, there is no divorce, no separation for ever. ...
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General Index
... 403 Divorce or separation in marriage . . . . . 284
Doubt of Thomas the Apostle . . . . . ...
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From Examples Tertullian Passes to Direct Dogmatic Teachings He ...
... separate by divorce, it is equally congruous that those whom God has separated by
death man is not to conjoin by marriage; the joining of the separation will ...
/.../tertullian/on monogamy/chapter ix from examples tertullian passes.htm

His Decision on the Question of Divorce. --Celibacy. (Matt. , xix,
... this bear upon the Mosaic law, which admits of divorce?" He replied ... indissolubility
appeared so hard, and the responsibility (if every separation were adultery ...
/.../section 224 his decision on.htm

An Explanation that we May not Appear to Recommend Separation from ...
... that we may not appear to recommend separation from wives. But let no one imagine
that we have invented this for the sake of encouraging divorce, as we not ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter x an explanation that.htm

Whether it is Lawful for a Husband to Put Away his Wife on Account ...
... Therefore it ought to have been a cause of separation rather than fornication ... in
the state of unbelief, the husband has given his wife a bill of divorce and she ...
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Whether the Husband Can on his Own Judgment Put Away his Wife on ...
... is no parallel, because then the sentence at law was not only divorce but also ... First,
he may seek a separation from bed before a spiritual judge, and then ...
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But I Marvel, If, as it is Allowed to Put Away a Wife Who...
... that the compact of marriage is not done away by divorce intervening; so that they
continue wedded persons one to another, even after separation; and commit ...
/.../augustine/on the good of marriage/section 7 but i marvel.htm

Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel
... In case of separation (not divorce) he was bound to allow her a proper aliment,
and to re-admit her to his table and house on the Sabbath-eve. ...
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The Call of Levi the Publican Christ in Relation to the Baptist. ...
... no one does he baptize but a cælebs or a eunuch; until death or divorce does he ... His
own [3845] ought not to have been branded [3846] as a separation [3847] of ...
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Subtopics

Divorce

Divorce and Adultery

Divorce and Getting Remarried

Divorce and Separation

Divorce Forgiveness

Divorce in the New Testament

Divorce in the Old Testament

Divorce of Captives, Regulated by Law

Divorce of Servants, Regulated by Law

Divorce: Disobedience of the Wife to the Husband, a Sufficient Cause For, in the Persian Empire

Divorce: Figurative