Add parallel Print Page Options

30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body go into hell.”[a]

Teaching about Divorce(A)

31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.’[b] 32 But I say to you, any man who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:30 Lit. Gehenna; a Gk. transliteration of the Heb. for Valley of Hinnom
  2. Matthew 5:31 Cf. Deut 24:1, 3