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The first view understands porneia to be a reference to adultery/sexual immorality and espouses the biblical legitimacy of divorce and remarriage for the innocent party of a spouse’s adultery/sexual immorality (“divorce and remarriage”).
What Jesus Taught about Marriage and Divorce - When Jesus had finished talking, He went from the country of Galilee. He came to the part of the country of Judea which is on the other side of the Jordan ...
In Matthew 5:32, the assumption is that the woman who is divorced will remarry, and Jesus seems to say that, unless her first marriage was dissolved by adultery (on her husband’s part), her second marriage will make her an adulteress. Jesus also has remarriage in mind in Matthew 19:9.
While Jesus makes it plain that divorce and remarriage without biblical grounds is sinfully adulterous (Matt. 19:9; cf. 1 Cor. 7:10–11), he also acknowledges that those who are divorced are truly divorced (not still married in God’s eyes) and those who have remarried are truly married.
Luke 16:18a, Matthew 19:9, and Mark 10:11 all reflect the Malachite oracle against unjustly divorcing a wife in order simply to marry another woman. And Mark 10:12 admits of the reciprocity of the application of the principle at this point.
Jesus also addresses divorce and remarriage in two punchy lines from his Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:31-32) where he seems to conclude that a man who divorces his wife “makes her commit adultery.”
Understanding Divorce and Remarriage. As people make their way through life, sometimes life throws curveballs that take them through roads they perhaps never knew existed. Being a counselor of couples, I always refer them to Matthew 19:8 where Jesus said, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard.