Jesus On Divorce Pt 2

Mark 10:1-12 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Matthew 5:31-32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Matthew 19:9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. Hebrews 11:31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace. porneia porne

‘Porneia’ is Not JUST Adultery In Matthew 15, Jesus mentions the two words porneia and moichea together: For from the heart come evil intentions: murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, slander. These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands does not make anyone unclean.' porneia, moichea, moichea,

Porneia covers the entire range of such sins [sexual immorality]... and should not be restricted unless the context requires it. – D. A. Carson

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife,

and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Some unbelievers feel threatened by the conversion of a spouse to Christ, as they now live with someone whose ultimate loyalties and commitment is beyond their understanding, and not all recover from the experience. - Roy E. Ciampa

1 Corinthians 7:15 In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Unfortunately, new converts may also need to be warned about the subconscious desire to start life over again and find a believing spouse by ‘‘locking-out’’ their unbelieving spouse and completely immersing themselves in their new Christian world to the point that their spouse feels completely abandoned and estranged from them and finally gives up up and divorces the believer.

The unbelieving spouse of a Christian ought to find in them a model of self- sacrificing love that is even more committed to the health of the marriage and to blessing their spouse than ever before. - Roy E. Ciampa

1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:8 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. – G. K. Chesterton