Mark 10:11
He replied, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
10Indoors the disciples began questioning Jesus again on the same subject.
12and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
Cross References
Matthew 19:9And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."
Romans 7:3This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.
1 Corinthians 7:10But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to 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 →