Dating While Separated

9 passages

1. Hebrews 13:4

   Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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2. Matthew 5:28

   But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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3. 1 Corinthians 7:15

   But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.

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4. Matthew 19:8

   Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart. But it was not this way from the beginning.

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5. 1 Corinthians 7:2

   But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

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6. Genesis 2:24

   For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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7. Matthew 19:9

   Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

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8. Matthew 19:6

   So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

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9. Malachi 2:16

   “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.

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