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Matthew 5:32-34
New English Translation
Matthew 5:32-34
New English Translation
32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality,[a] makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Oaths
33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation,[b] ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’[c] 34 But I say to you, do not take oaths at all—not by heaven, because it is the throne of God,
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- Matthew 5:32 sn The phrase except for immorality (often referred to as the “exception clause”) has been the subject of much debate. One of the best and most comprehensive recent studies which pays particular attention to historical background material, especially Jewish material, is that of D. Instone-Brewer, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context (Eerdmans, 2002).
- Matthew 5:33 tn Grk “the ancient ones.”
- Matthew 5:33 sn A quotation from Lev 19:12.
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