"Suppose a man has two wives and they both bear him sons, but the first son is not the child of his favorite wife.

"Suppose a man marries a young woman and later he decides he doesn't want her.

If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.

and he also decides that he doesn't want her, so he also writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. Or suppose her second husband dies.

Judah also saw that I divorced Israel and sent her away because she had turned from me and had become a prostitute. But Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, was not afraid. She too became a prostitute

"It was also said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.'

But now I tell you: if a man divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, then he is guilty of making her commit adultery if she marries again; and the man who marries her commits adultery also.

The Pharisees asked him, "Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?"

I tell you, then, that any man who divorces his wife for any cause other than her unfaithfulness, commits adultery if he marries some other woman."

Their answer was, "Moses gave permission for a man to write a divorce notice and send his wife away."

But in the beginning, at the time of creation, 'God made them male and female,' as the scripture says.

and the two will become one.' So they are no longer two, but one.

When they went back into the house, the disciples asked Jesus about this matter.

In the same way, a woman who divorces her husband and marries another man commits adultery."

The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.

They are also to fine him a hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the young woman's father, because the man has brought disgrace on an Israelite woman. Moreover, she will continue to be his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.

He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

"I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel. "I hate it when one of you does such a cruel thing to his wife. Make sure that you do not break your promise to be faithful to your wife."

Joseph was a man who always did what was right, but he did not want to disgrace Mary publicly; so he made plans to break the engagement privately.

"Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

but if she does, she must remain single or else be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not divorce his wife.

To the others I say (I, myself, not the Lord): if a Christian man has a wife who is an unbeliever and she agrees to go on living with him, he must not divorce her.