What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage?
God hates divorce (Mal 2:16) and designed marriage to be permanent, "what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matt 19:6). Scripture permits it in limited cases (sexual immorality, Matt 19:9; an unbelieving spouse who departs, 1 Cor 7:15), and holds out grace to those already divorced.
What the text states
Marriage is a covenant meant for life (Gen 2:24, Matt 19:4-6). Jesus allows divorce for "fornication" (Matt 19:9), and Paul allows a believer to let an unbelieving spouse depart (1 Cor 7:15). Outside these, Scripture calls couples to reconciliation and faithfulness. For those already divorced, whatever the cause: there is grace, forgiveness, and a future in Christ; God redeems broken histories. The Bible upholds marriage's permanence as the standard and meets real people with mercy where life has fallen short of it.
Views differ on remarriage after divorce. We hold the permanence of marriage as God's design, the limited biblical grounds, and grace for those the standard has already broken.
Checked 2026-09-29 by Darren. 62 Scripture citations verified against the KJV rows. Wave 5. 62 quoted fragments table-passed against the verses table, splitting at every ellipsis. FOUR CORRECTIONS, each to the KJV row: Acts 4:12 "in none other" is not contiguous, replaced with "none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved"; Deut 1:39 "have no knowledge" corrected to "had no knowledge"; Eph 3:2 "dispensation of grace" corrected to "dispensation of the grace of God"; Rom 11:23 "shall be graffed in again" corrected to "shall be graffed in" (the KJV runs "shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again").