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📝 Remarriage

This study lists scriptures on remarriage.


Matthew 19:4-6
  1. And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at the beginning made them male and female,
  2. And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
  3. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Adultery

Only widows or widowers are permitted to remarry.

God draws a distinction between married and unmarried
1 Corinthians 7:32-34
  1. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
  2. But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
  3. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Woman married to another whilst husband lives
Mark 10:12
  1. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Romans 7:2-3
  1. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
  2. 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.
Man married to another whilst wife put away
Matthew 19:9
  1. 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
  1. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Man married to divorced or put away woman
Matthew 5:32
  1. 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.

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

Warning

Be not deceived, shall not inherit kingdom of God
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
  1. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  2. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21
  1. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  2. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  3. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Enemy of God
James 4:4
  1. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Colossians 1:21-23
  1. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
  2. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
  3. If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Not everyone makes it
Luke 6:46
  1. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

1 John 2:4
  1. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

James 2:26
  1. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Matthew 7:21-23
  1. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  2. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
  3. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Ezekiel 11:21
  1. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Do

Sin no more
John 8:10-11
  1. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
  2. She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Romans 6:1-2
  1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
  2. God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Romans 13:14
  1. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

1 John 2:5-6
  1. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
  2. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Ezekiel 18:27-28
  1. Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
  2. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Proverbs 28:13
  1. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Remain single
1 Corinthians 7:10-11
  1. And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:
  2. But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

Mark 9:43-48
  1. And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
  2. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
  3. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
  4. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
  5. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
  6. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Mark 10:29-30
  1. And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
  2. But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Luke 18:29-30
  1. And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
  2. Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

References

Definitions 📖 Adultery
Articles 📰 Remarriage
📰 Remarriage and regeneration
Studies 📝 God’s law
📝 Sin unto death

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