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Matthew 5:31-32
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31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’Deuteronomy 24:1 32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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Matthew 5:31-32
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Divorce

31 “It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’[a] 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality,[b] makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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  1. Matthew 5:31 tn Or “a written notice of divorce.”sn A quotation from Deut 24:1.
  2. Matthew 5:32 sn The phrase except for immorality (often referred to as the “exception clause”) has been the subject of much debate. One of the best and most comprehensive recent studies which pays particular attention to historical background material, especially Jewish material, is that of D. Instone-Brewer, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context (Eerdmans, 2002).
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