Matthew 5:32 Cross References - Moffatt

³² But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

⁸ He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning. ⁹ I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

⁵ Jesus said to them, "He wrote you that command on account of the hardness of your hearts. ⁶ But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them: ⁷ hence a man shall leave his father and mother, ⁸ and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What God has joined, then, man must not separate." ¹⁰ Indoors, the disciples again asked him about this, ¹¹ and he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer to the former, ¹² and she is an adulteress if she divorces her husband and marries another man."

³⁰ There were two men conversing with him, Moses and Elijah,

³⁵ but a voice came from the cloud, "This is my Son, my Chosen one; listen to him."

¹⁸ Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

³ Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's. ⁴ the wife cannot do as she pleases with her body — her husband has power, and in the same way the husband cannot do as he pleases with his body — his wife has power.

¹⁰ For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband — ¹¹ if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him — and a husband must not put away his wife.