Bible Verses About Second Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for second marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 750 votes, led by Luke 16:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Second Marriage
Luke 16:1879 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Exodus 21:1075 votes
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Matthew 19:975 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.
Matthew 19:3-963 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?
1 Corinthians 7:12-1649 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.
Deuteronomy 21:1543 votes
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
1 Corinthians 7:10-1139 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Hebrews 13:433 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 7:230 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.
Romans 7:2-328 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 7:1525 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-1623 votes
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
1 Corinthians 4:522 votes
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Matthew 5:3221 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Luke 18:819 votes
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Romans 6:2317 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:12-1517 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.
Malachi 2:1613 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.
John 14:613 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Job 2:1012 votes
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
1 Corinthians 14:3312 votes
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Exodus 21:111 votes
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Revelation 3:611 votes
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
1 Samuel 1:1-210 votes
Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
Luke 21:2510 votes
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
What does the Bible say about second marriage?
Readers most often cite Luke 16:18 on the subject of second marriage. Across 750 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 21:10, Matthew 19:9, Matthew 19:3-9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.