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Bible Verses About Separation of Relationships

This collection includes 50 passages about Separation of Relationships. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

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Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

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They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

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And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

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They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

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When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

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Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

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And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

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And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

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If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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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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Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

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I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

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But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

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