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30 And if your right hand is causing you to fall, cut it off and throw it from you. For it is better for you that one of your body-parts perish and your whole body not go into Gehenna.

Some Say Get a Legal Divorce. I Say Divorcees Who Remarry Commit Adultery

31 “And it was said, ‘Whoever sends-away[a] his wife, let him give her a divorce[b] certificate’. 32 But I say to you that everyone sending-away his wife except for a matter[c] of sexual-immorality is causing her to commit-adultery[d]. And whoever marries a woman having been sent-away [from her husband] is committing-adultery.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:31 Or, dismisses. This refers to the physical separation aspect of divorce. The legal aspect is referred to next.
  2. Matthew 5:31 This legal document was to protect the woman and make it possible for her to remarry.
  3. Matthew 5:32 Or, word, account.
  4. Matthew 5:32 Or, become-an-adulteress. That is, when she remarries.

30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble,(A) cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Divorce

31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’[a](B) 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:31 Deut. 24:1