⁹I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery. ⁿ The only reason for a man to divorce his wife is if his wife has sexual relations with another man.”

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Footnotes

nadultery Some Greek copies continue, “And anyone who marries a divorced woman is guilty of adultery.” Compare Matthew 5:32.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

And I tell you this, whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery—unless his wife has been unfaithful.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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