Marital separation occurs when partners to a marriage stop living together.
And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. | Exodus 21:11
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away. | Matthew 19:3-12
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 we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. | Romans 8:28
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. | Matthew 19:9
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. | 1 Corinthians 7:39
But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. | Acts 26:20
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. | Acts 5:29
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 anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. | 1 Timothy 5:8
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
Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet. | Amos 3:3
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness. | 2 Corinthians 6:14
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 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
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. | 1 John 5:3
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. | Ephesians 5:33
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. | Proverbs 10:12
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. | Ephesians 5:25
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. | Proverbs 18:22
It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. | Matthew 5:31
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
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. | 1 Peter 3:7
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
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. | Hosea 4:6
Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples. | Habakkuk 2:5
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh. | 1 Corinthians 6:16
Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. | Acts 8:22
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. | Genesis 2:18
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. | Ephesians 5:31
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. | Acts 17:30
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. | Ephesians 5:22