Mark 10:11
and He says to them, “Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, commits adultery against her;
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10And in the house His disciples again questioned Him of the same thing,
12and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she commits adultery.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:2when she has gone out of his house, and has gone and been another man’s,
Matthew 19:9And I say to you that whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, commits adultery; and he who married her that has been put away, commits adultery.”
Romans 7:3so then, the husband being alive, she will be called an adulteress if she may become another man’s; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man’s.
1 Corinthians 7:10and to the married I announce—not I, but the LORD—do not let a wife separate from a husband:
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:2-13
The Doctrine of Divorce. 1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of… Read the whole commentary →