Divorce

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Matthew 5:31 NT

  “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’

• Matthew 19:3 NT

  Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

• Deuteronomy 22:18 OT

  The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

• Deuteronomy 22:19 OT

  They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

• Proverbs 2:17 OT

  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

• Mark 10:12 NT

  If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

• Deuteronomy 24:2 OT

  When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

• Numbers 30:9 OT

  “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

• Deuteronomy 24:3 OT

  If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

• Deuteronomy 24:4 OT

  her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

• Jeremiah 3:1 OT

  “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to…

• Isaiah 54:4 OT

  “Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

• Isaiah 54:6 OT

  For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

• Leviticus 21:14 OT

  He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.

• Exodus 21:7 OT

  “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

• Exodus 21:11 OT

  If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

• Deuteronomy 21:13 OT

  She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 21:14 OT

  It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

• Ezra 10:2-17 OT

  Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. Now therefore…

• Nehemiah 13:23 OT

  In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

• Nehemiah 13:30 OT

  Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;

• Malachi 2:14-16 OT

  Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. Did he not make you one, although he had…

• Matthew 5:32 NT

  but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

• Matthew 19:9 NT

  I 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.”