Divorce - God Hates It!
Matthew 19:1-9; Malachi 2:14-17
Dr. Nelson Walker
Malachi 2 (NKJV™) | |
14 | Yet you say, "For what reason?" Because the LORD has been witness Between you and the wife of your youth, With whom you have dealt treacherously; Yet she is your companion And your wife by covenant. |
15 | But did He not make them one, Having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth. |
16 | "For the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment with violence," Says the LORD of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously." |
17 | You have wearied the LORD with your words; Yet you say, "In what way have we wearied Him?" In that you say, "Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the LORD, And He delights in them," Or, "Where is the God of justice?" |
Matthew 19 (NKJV™) | |
1 | Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. |
2 | And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there. |
3 | The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" |
4 | And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' |
5 | "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? |
6 | "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." |
7 | They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?" |
8 | He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. |
9 | "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery." |
New King James Version®, Copyright © 1982, Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.
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