Look at the legalized adultery we call divorce. Men marry one wife after another and are still admitted into good society; and women do likewise. There are thousands of supposedly respectable men in American living with other men’s wives, and thousands of supposedly respectable women living with other women’s husbands.
–R.A. Torrey
What would R.A. Torrey say of today’s Christianity that has a higher rate of divorce than that of the world?
Related Scriptures:
Mat 5:31-32 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 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.
Mat 19:3-10 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 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 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Mar 10:2-12 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Luk 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Rom 7:2-3 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1Co 7:10-11 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
1Co 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Last May when I was reading Romans 7:2-3 the Lord suddenly removed the scales from my eyes to show me that I was in an adulterous remarriage by being “married” for over 17 years to a divorced man whose covenant wife was still alive.We have two children together.The realization of my offence towards God’s holiness was a deep shock to me, but God gave me the grace to repent and forsake the adulterous remarriage.I will always be grateful to Christ and for the good news of the gospel of Christ. Many Christians object and say the Lord forgave us and that He would never require us to separate. They don’t understand the scriptures or the power of God. Only the Lord can open blind eyes.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Hi Judy,
I am sorry to hear that you married a divorced man. Was the marriage that you were in a good relationship or was it on the rocks. It is one thing to forsake a marriage that is not working out but it would be another think to forsake a marriage that where the couple deeply love each other and have strong romantic feelings for each other.
Would you feel that you are free to remarry in the Lord? Also the divorced man who has a covenant wife, was that his first marriage and her first marriage?
May 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
My first (covenant) husband died, and I was left with three children, and then when I married my non-covenant husband he had one child that was also living with us, so the first four years of our marriage were quite stressful for everyone.We had our problems, but we loved each other and were definitely committed to our marriage.
I am not sure if I am free to remarry in the Lord, but feel that it is best if I remain single and focus on the Lord. I do not wish to complicate my children’s, grandchildren’s, or my life anymore. The lesson has been learned the hard way.
The man that I separated from was divorced from his covenant wife as it was a first marriage for both of them. She never did remarry.