2. What does God say about divorce?

3. Marriage is a life-long commitment (Romans 7:1-3; Matthew 19:4-6).
God’s law in regard to divorce is
strict (Mark 10:11-12; Luke 16:18).
God will judge adulterers (Hebrews 13:4; I Corinthians 6:9-10).

4. Reasons why divorce is wrong:
Separates what God joined (Mark
10:9).
Covenant-breaking is sin (Romans
1:31-32).
Causes people to commit adultery
(Matthew 5:31-32).
Is a failure to love (Romans 13:8-10).

5. Jesus gave only one exception to the
prohibition against divorce (Matthew
5:32; 19:9).
“But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.” [Mark 5:32]

6. “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” [Matthew 19:9]

7. “ ‘If a man divorced his wife without cause and married another, would the wife, being an innocent party, be free to marry if her former husband and not she obtained the divorce?’ I answered ‘Yes.’ “To put the matter in proper perspective, let us assume the following instance: Jane and John, both single, neither have been previously wedded, marry. John, of weak character, soon tires of Jane and abandons her though she is a good wife, and a faithful Christian woman. As soon as he can conveniently do so, he contracts another marriage. Not free to remarry, his relationship with the second woman, though legal, is adulterous.”

8. “Jane, meantime, has remained free of marital relationship, and would have received John back at any time prior to the adulterous marriage into which he entered. Being a Christian woman, she does not recognize the state's legal grounds for divorce, willing only to accept the Lord's ground - fornication. By unscripturally contracting marriage with the second woman John is now guilty of the act constituting the exception clause of Matthew 19:9. Jane meets Bill, a fine Christian man never before married. May she scripturally marry him? Of course she may. To deny her this is presumptuously to pass judgment on the validity of the Lord's edict and take from her what the Lord granted.”
(Guy N. Woods, Questions and Answers, Vol. II, pp )