Matthew 5:32 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

KJV

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

On Monogamy (220)

But another reason, too, conspires; nay, not another, but (one)which imposed the law of "the beginning," and moved the will of God to prohibit divorce: the fact that (he)who shall have dismissed his wife, except on the ground of adultery, makes her commit adultery; and (he) who shall have married a (woman) dismissed by her husband, of course commits adultery. A divorced woman cannot even marry legitimately; and if she commit any such act without the name of marriage, does it not fall under the category of adultery, in that adultery is crime in the way of marriage?

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Vers. 31 seqq.) However, it is said: Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. But I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for the cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. In the later part, the Savior explains this place more fully, that Moses commanded the certificate of divorce to be given because of the hardness of the hearts of the husbands, not granting a separation, but removing homicide.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Saving for the cause of fornication - Λογου πορνειας, on account of whoredom. As fornication signifies no more than the unlawful connection of unmarried persons, it cannot be used here with propriety, when speaking of those who are married. I have therefore translated λογου πορνειας, on account of whoredom. It does not appear that there is any other case in which Jesus Christ admits of divorce.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery--that is, drives her into it in case she marries again. and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced--for anything short of conjugal infidelity. committeth adultery--for if the commandment is broken by the one party, it must be by the other also.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
λέγω	legō	say	G3004 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
πᾶς	pas	everyone	G3956 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ἀπολύων	apoluōn	is divorcing	G630 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
γυναῖκα	gunaika	wife	G1135 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
παρεκτὸς	parektos	except	G3924 →
λόγου	logou	on account	G3056 →
πορνείας	porneias	of sexual immorality	G4202 →
ποιεῖ	poiei	causes	G4160 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	her	G846 →
μοιχευθῆναι·	moicheuthēnai	to be adulterated;	G3431 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ὃς	hos	who[ever]	G3739 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ἀπολελυμένην	apolelumenēn	divorced	G620 →
γαμήσῃ,	gamēsē	shall marry,	G1060 →
μοιχᾶται.¶	moichatai	commits adultery.	G3429 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 7:3
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not…
leads to
- Exodus 20:14
  You shall not commit adultery.
- Mark 10:6–12
  However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Through
Luke 16:18
Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
leads to
- Matthew 19:9
  Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Mark 10:11–12
  So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 5:31–32
  It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
  The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:10–12
  To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
Through
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
leads to
- Hosea 3:3
  Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”