Matthew 5:32
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But I am saying to you°, Whoever divorces his wife, except-for the reason of fornication, is making$ her commit adultery and whoever marries her who has been divorced is committing adultery. {Mat 19:9, Luk 16:18} {Once engaged and once the couple leave the parents house (Mat 1:19), with or without all the pomp and ceremony, they are married. We have a ‘separation’ and ‘a legal separation’ in English, the Jews had no such thing, nor did most of the world before the 20 th century. The Jews only had divorce (release, disband, dismiss). ‘Put away’ was a kindness to mean divorce, similar to our ‘he passed on’ vs. ‘he is dead’. Once you separated, or moved out or were put out, you were divorced. Fornication is sex between 2 or more people, never pornography which is sin also, but unrelated to marriage or divorce. }