Bible Verses About Divorcing an Unbeliever
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for divorcing an unbeliever, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 960 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Divorcing an Unbeliever
1 Corinthians 7:1586 votes
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1640 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
2 Corinthians 6:1440 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 7:1-4035 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Matthew 5:31-3234 votes
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Matthew 19:634 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Malachi 2:1630 votes
For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
1 Corinthians 7:1029 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 7:12-1427 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Genesis 2:2425 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1323 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1 Corinthians 7:3923 votes
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.
Matthew 19:922 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:1421 votes
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1 Peter 3:121 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Corinthians 7:1220 votes
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1 Corinthians 7:15-1619 votes
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Revelation 1:119 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Amos 3:318 votes
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
1 Corinthians 1:1-3118 votes
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians 7:1317 votes
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Matthew 19:3-916 votes
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?
2 Corinthians 6:14-1516 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Romans 7:215 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 11:315 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
What does the Bible say about divorcing an unbeliever?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:15 on the subject of divorcing an unbeliever. Across 960 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:12-16, 2 Corinthians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.