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Bible Verses About divorcing an unbeliever

12 key scriptures

What does the Bible say about divorcing an unbeliever? Browse 12 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Corinthians 7:15
King James (KJV)But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. to peace: Gr. in peace

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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. to peace: Gr. in peace
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
It hath been said , Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. that he: or, if he hate her, put her away putting: Heb. to put away
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

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