26 Bible Verses On Divorce And Remarriage

A husband or wife may dissolve a marriage for almost any grounds and remarry, regardless of the will of their spouse. The result is that many people marry without considering the teaching of the Bible. Please consider this careful study of the Biblical teaching.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. | Mark 10:12

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. | Romans 7:3

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. | Mark 10:11

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? | Mark 10:2

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. | Acts 2:38

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. | 1 Corinthians 7:27-28

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. | Matthew 19:9

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 5:32

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 7:15

But if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. | 1 Corinthians 7:11

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. | Ephesians 4:32

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. | Luke 16:18

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 7:2

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. 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. | Romans 7:2-3

For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless. | Malachi 2:16

Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. | Malachi 2:15

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. | Matthew 19:8

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 5:31-32

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. | Titus 1:6

It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. | Matthew 5:31

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. | Hebrews 13:4

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. | Matthew 19:6

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. | Deuteronomy 24:4

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. | 1 Corinthians 7:10-11

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. | Genesis 2:24

You shall not commit adultery. | Exodus 20:14