Quotes About Divorce

Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!

One of them is your ex-wife, and we know she didn't do it.

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

But if a priestís daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her fatherís house, she may share her fatherís food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.

Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,

then the man who lay with her must pay the young womanís father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another manís wife,

and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your motherís certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

And they shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but must marry a virgin of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow of a priest.

“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.

Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and was unwilling to disgrace her publicly, he resolved to divorce her quietly.

It has also been said, ëWhoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.í

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.

Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”