Law on Divorce – Luke 16:18
Jesus in this verse attacks a belief that the Pharisees had on divorce. They said that it was o.k. to divorce your wife on trivial means, much like today. Jesus had stated in the Sermon of the Mount that the only cause of divorce in the eyes of God was adultery. If a person divorced their spouse for any other reason He told them that the next person they married would be committing adultery with them.
The Bible is very clear on this issue. Paul would later reveal in the book of Corinthians that a Christian could be divorced if they were living with an unbelieving spouse who wanted out of the relationship. The divorce however had to initiated by the unbelieving spouse and carried through by them. Paul says we are called to live in peace.
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