Matthew 19:7
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7 [a]They said to him, Why did then (A) Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?
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- Matthew 19:7 Because political Laws are constrained to bear with some things, it followeth not by and by that God alloweth them.
Matthew 19:7
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7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”(A)
Deuteronomy 24:1
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24 1 Divorcement is permitted. 5 He that is newly married is exempted from war. 6 Of the pledge. 14 Wages must not be retained. 16 The good must not be punished for the bad. 17 The care of the stranger, fatherless, and widow.
1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath espied some filthiness in her, [a]then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
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- Deuteronomy 24:1 Hereby God approveth not that light divorcement, but permitteth it to avoid further inconvenience, Matt. 19:7.
Deuteronomy 24:1
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24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house,
Mark 10:4
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4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
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Mark 10:4
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4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(A)
Luke 16:18
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18 ¶ (A)Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, commiteth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her [a]that is put away from her husband, commiteth adultery.
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- Luke 16:18 They that gather by this place, that a man cannot be married again after that he hath put away his wife for adultery, while she liveth, reason fondly: for Christ speaketh of those divorces which the Jews used, of which sort we cannot take the divorcement for adultery, for adulterers were put to death by the law.
Luke 16:18
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18 “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.(A)
1 Corinthians 7:10
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10 (A)[a]And unto the married I command, not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.
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- 1 Corinthians 7:10 Seventhly, he forbiddeth contentions and the publishing of divorces (for he speaketh not here of the fault of whoredom, which was then death even by the law of the Romans also) whereby he affirmeth that the hand of marriage is not dissolved, and that from Christ’s mouth.
1 Corinthians 7:10
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10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.(A)
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