Bible Verses About Separation
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for separation, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,035 votes, led by Malachi 2:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Separation
Malachi 2:16221 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.
Matthew 19:9170 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 7:15164 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.
Luke 16:18156 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Matthew 19:6145 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Hebrews 13:4140 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Matthew 5:31-32137 votes
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Matthew 5:32137 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.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11137 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Timothy 5:8135 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Romans 8:38-39125 votes
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Matthew 19:8122 votes
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4119 votes
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
1 Corinthians 7:39118 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.
2 Thessalonians 3:6110 votes
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
Mark 10:2-12107 votes
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Genesis 2:24106 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Titus 3:10105 votes
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Matthew 19:3-9104 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?
Revelation 1:1103 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:
1 Corinthians 7:10101 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Jeremiah 3:899 votes
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Isaiah 50:197 votes
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:197 votes
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.
Romans 7:295 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.
What does the Bible say about separation?
Readers most often cite Malachi 2:16 on the subject of separation. Across 8,035 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 19:9, 1 Corinthians 7:15, Luke 16:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.