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God created the male being and female being to complement one another in marital life. Jesus has stated unequivocally about divorce in Matthew 19:8 that "From the beginning it was not so". God did not instruct Adam that if the marriage of Adam and Eve fails then Adam may divorce her and remarry some other woman.

Quotes from the Bible regarding Marriage Divorce and Remarriage

Jesus and Paul have made it crystal clear that while one's partner is alive, it is erroneous to remarry. Divorce does not empower a person to remarry. In case a divorced person remarries, it can be said that he / she has begun a relationship of adultery.

Romans 7:2, 3

"The woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he alive; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband alive, 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"

Mark 10:11, 12

"Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery"

Quotes from the Bible regarding Marriage

God proposed that the relation of marriage should be akin to that between Christ and the Church.

Ephesians 5:22 - 25, 32

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. . . . This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church"

Quotes from the Bible regarding Divorce

One finds that the first instructions pertaining to divorce were made under the leadership of Moses.

Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4

"When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance"

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