A) BEING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ABUSED.

B) CASES WHERE YOU CAN DIVORCE.

C) CASES WHERE ONE CANNOT DIVORCE.

D) BIBLICAL ADULTERY.

 

 

A) BEING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY ABUSED

 

 

Although the Bible doesn’t specifically state one can “divorce” over one being physically abused, one should certainly leave that situation.  Here are a few verses for you to consider:

 

Psalm 10:18:  “To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.”

 

Psalm 11:5:  “The LORD trieth the righteous:  but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”

 

Psalm 55:20:  “He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him:  he hath broken his covenant.”

 

Psalm 72:14:  “He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence:  and precious shall their blood be in His sight.”

 

Ephesians 4:31:  “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.”

 

Colossians 3:18-19:  “[18] Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. [19] Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”

 

First Peter 3:7:  “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

 

 

B) CASES WHERE YOU CAN DIVORCE

 

 

Deuteronomy 24:1:  “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her:  then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”

 

Isaiah 50:1:  “Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.”

 

Jeremiah 3:8:  “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”

 

Matthew 1:19:  “Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.”

 

Matthew 5:31-32:  “[31] It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: [32] But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery:  and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

 

Matthew 19:9:  “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery:  and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”

 

First Corinthians 5:9:  “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.”

 

First Corinthians 7:11:  “But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:  and let not the husband put away his wife.”

 

First Corinthians 7:15:  “But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart.  A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:  but God hath called us to peace.”

 

Ephesians 5:3:  “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.”

 

 

C) CASES WHERE ONE CANNOT DIVORCE

 

 

Deuteronomy 22:19:  “And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.”

 

Deuteronomy 22:29:  “Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.”

 

Malachi 2:16:  “For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away:  for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts:  therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.”

 

Matthew 19:7-8:  “[7] They say unto Him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? [8] He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives:  but from the beginning it was not so.” (see also Mark 10:5-12)

 

Luke 16:18:  “Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery:  and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

 

First Corinthians 7:11:  “But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband:  and let not the husband put away his wife.”

 

 

D) BIBLICAL ADULTERY

 

 

Leviticus 20:10:  “And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.”

 

Deuteronomy 24:1-4:  “[1] When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her:  then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. [2] And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. [3] And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; [4] Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD:  and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.”

 

Jeremiah 29:23:  “Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in My Name, which I have not Commanded them; even I know, and Am a witness, saith the LORD.”

 

Ezekiel 16:32:  “But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!”

 

Malachi 2:14-16:  “[14] Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. [15] And did not he make one?  Yet had he the residue of the spirit.  And wherefore one?  That he might seek a godly seed.  Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. [16] For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:  for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.”

 

Matthew 5:28:  “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

 

Matthew 5:32:  “But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery:  and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

 

Matthew 19:9:  “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery:  and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”

 

Mark 10:11-12:  “[11] And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. [12] And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”

 

Luke 16:18:  “Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery:  and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

 

Romans 7:3:  “So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that Law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”

 

Hebrews 13:4:  “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled:  but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

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