Matthew 5:31
Matthew chapter 5 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
KJV
King James Version · 1611It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Context
v.30And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.
v.31This passage
v.32but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
- Mark 10:2
And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.
- Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Matthew 19:7
They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?
- Matthew 19:3
And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?