Mark 10:11
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
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In Context
10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
12If a woman herself divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:2When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Matthew 19:9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
Romans 7:3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
1 Corinthians 7:10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her 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 →