Marriage after divorce

[Invicta]

In which circumstances does scripture allow marriage after divorce?

[farouk]

In which circumstances does scripture allow marriage after divorce?

Invicta:

I think it can be helpful to look at specific passages.

It's certainly a contentious subject, anyway.

[Salyan]

That's assuming Scripture does allow marriage after divorce... :stirthepot:

[farouk]

That's assuming Scripture does allow marriage after divorce...

salyan:

I'm referring to the so called exception clauses in the Gospels.

Questions to ask: what is the context? and what was the betrothal practice of Jews?

[TheMustardSeed]

In which circumstances does scripture allow marriage after divorce?

The Lord bless you a 1000 times more as much as you have in your life now.
amen

[Invicta]

I was thinking of a former foster son of ours who was married and his wife walked out on him after about six months, about 10 years ago. He has since been divorced and is getting married again at the end of July. he is getting married in an Anglian church and has asked me to do a reading, leaving it to me to as wo which one. If I do that I was thinking of reading:
Eph 5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
21 ¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 ¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Perhaps adding a short comment.

[Crushmaster]

God hates divorce. And He hates "smearing" (marrying after divorce).

(Romans 7:1-3 KJV) - "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? {2} For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. {3} So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man."

(Matthew 5:31-32 KJV) - "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."

(Matthew 19:7-9 KJV) - "They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? {8} He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. {9} And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery."

(Mark 10:4-12 KJV) - "And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. {5} And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. {6} But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. {7} For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; {8} And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. {9} What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. {10} And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. {11} And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. {12} And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery."

(Malachi 2:14-16 KJV) - "Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. {15} And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. {16} For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously."
God bless,
Joel ><>.
2 Chronicles 7:14; Romans 5:8.

Edited June 25, 2011 by Crushmaster

[farouk]

Interesting that the Mark passage above doesn't even mention the exception clause, which so many people quote from the Matthew account.

Why, then, does the Matthew account have the so called exception clause?

Matthew has a particularly Jewish context, and remember also regarding Joseph and Mary , before they came together, it's said that Joseph was minded to put her away privily. This refers to a putting away in the Jewish betrothal period.

It would seem to me that trying to use the Matthew exception clause indiscriminately to justify divorce and remarriage doesn't take into account the original Jewish context of the betrothal period.

(Two cents'.)

[JerryNumbers]

Ro 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Ro 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

It seems one is free to remarry only after thier spouse has died. So if one gets a divorce, if they out live the divorce husband or wife, which ever the case may be, they them are free to remarry.