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30 If your right hand makes you do wrong, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to lose a part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell fire.

31 `The law said, "Any man who does not want to keep his wife must give her a paper to tell others she is no longer his wife."

32 But I tell you, no man may send away his wife unless she has committed adultery. If he does send her away, he is making her commit adultery. And if a man marries a woman who has been sent away from her husband, he commits adultery.'

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30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Divorce

31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’[a](B) 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.(C)

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  1. Matthew 5:31 Deut. 24:1

30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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.

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30 And if your right hand causes you to [a]sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Marriage Is Sacred and Binding(A)

31 “Furthermore it has been said, (B)‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that (C)whoever divorces his wife for any reason except [b]sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:30 Lit. stumble or offend
  2. Matthew 5:32 Or fornication

30 (A)And if your right hand (B)causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into (C)hell.

Divorce

31 (D)“It was also said, (E)‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 (F)But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and (G)whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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