What Does the Bible Say About Til Death Do Us Part?

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Matthew 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

18 Bible Verses about Til Death Do Us Part

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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Matthew 19:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 1 helpful vote