Bible Dictionary: Divorce: Forbidden by Christ Except for Adultery

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

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 19:9
And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her which is put away does commit adultery.
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Library

On the Journey to Jerusalem - Departure from Ephraim by Way of ...
... no real comparison is possible between Christ and even ... another, was adultery, because,
as the divorce was null ... the Rabbinic Law would also have forbidden it. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxii on the journey.htm

Whether the New Law Fulfils the Old?
... Now Christ fulfilled the precepts of the Old Law both ... delay, so that excessive eagerness
for divorce might cease ... Reply to Objection 3: It was forbidden by the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the new law fulfils.htm

The Sermon on the Mount.
... But the laws of the kingdom of Christ are given ... ourselves by absolutely refusing
to go to forbidden resorts, etc ... an adulteress [the mere fact of divorce did not ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlii the sermon on the 4.htm

Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel
... were extended over the whole line of forbidden kindred, where ... he had brought her
letter of divorce, or in ... was evidently customary at the time of Christ (Mark 12 ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 9 mothers daughters and.htm

V. ...
... virtue of the declaration, "The Church has forbidden it." Holiness ... give his wife
a bill of divorce and put ... make the offer of His grace except through Christ. ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter i v .htm

Index of Subjects.
... 499; insatiable, [428]499; miserable, [429]500; forbidden even in ... 505]81; intimated
in words of Christ, [506]95 ... Divorce, why allowed to the Jews, [539]119; why ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/index of subjects.htm

The Domestic Relation.
... Divorce. ... Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to ... attention
somewhere else, but, no, he keeps his eye on the forbidden object and ...
/.../orr/the gospel day /chapter xiii the domestic relation.htm

The Women of the Gospel Narrative the Study of the Early Christian ...
... would be a 'burden.' Women were also forbidden to look in ... on a far higher basis and
restricted divorce to its ... the priests in their designs on Christ's life was ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/i the women of the.htm

Formula Concordiæ.
... this, nevertheless, is not to be understood except of the ... condemn that dogma that
faith in Christ is not ... Spirit, even though they fall into adultery or other ...
/.../schaff/the creeds of the evangelical protestant churches/formula concordiae.htm

Post-Nicene Mothers
... on the other side is marriage, not forbidden, but merely ... Jerome's defence of her
divorce shows such liberality of ... it is true, from the laws of Christ.... ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/v post-nicene mothers.htm

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