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Some Say Get a Legal Divorce. I Say Divorcees Who Remarry Commit Adultery

31 “And it was said, ‘Whoever sends-away[a] his wife, let him give her a divorce[b] certificate’. 32 But I say to you that everyone sending-away his wife except for a matter[c] of sexual-immorality is causing her to commit-adultery[d]. And whoever marries a woman having been sent-away [from her husband] is committing-adultery.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:31 Or, dismisses. This refers to the physical separation aspect of divorce. The legal aspect is referred to next.
  2. Matthew 5:31 This legal document was to protect the woman and make it possible for her to remarry.
  3. Matthew 5:32 Or, word, account.
  4. Matthew 5:32 Or, become-an-adulteress. That is, when she remarries.

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