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32 (A) But I tell you not to divorce your wife unless she has committed some terrible sexual sin.[a] If you divorce her, you will cause her to be unfaithful, just as any man who marries her is guilty of taking another man's wife.

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  1. 5.32 some terrible sexual sin: This probably refers to the laws about the wrong kinds of marriages that are forbidden in Leviticus 18.6-18 or to some serious sexual sin.

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.(A)

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10 (A) I instruct married couples to stay together, and this is exactly what the Lord himself taught. A wife who leaves her husband

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10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.(A)

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11 should either stay single or go back to her husband. And a husband should not leave his wife.

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11 But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband.(A) And a husband must not divorce his wife.

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