Except for Fornication

Does God allow for divorce for Spiritual Fornication? Let's discuss.

EXCEPT FOR FORNICATION: A BRIEF LOOK AT THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW

Mt 19:3 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?

Mt 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mt 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be ONE flesh?

Mt 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder <5563>.

Ro 8:35 Who shall separate <5563> us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1Co 7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart <5563> from her husband:

1Co 7:11 But and if she depart <5563>, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to { } husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Mt 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

De 24:1 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.

Mt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness <4641> of your hearts <4641> suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Mr 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart <4641>, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

Ex 7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Ps 95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Joh 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Mt 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication <4202>, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS: MARRIAGE TO HEATHEN NATIONS?

Mt 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication <4202>, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

Ac 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication <4202>: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

1Co 6:18 Flee fornication <4202>. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Re 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication <4202>; and she repented not.

1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication <4202>, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Le 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Mt 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Jer 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Ho 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Eze 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

Ho 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Mr 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Ga 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Re 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

CAUSING ELECT TO COMMIT FORNICATION: DOES DIVORCE WITHOUT FORNICATION ADULTERATE THE MARRIAGE?

Mt 5:32 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.

Nu 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

2Ch 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

Re 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Re 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Isa 5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Job 24:7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Ps 132:16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

Zec 3:4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

PUTTING AWAY CHRIST WITHOUT CAUSE: STATE OF THE CHURCH IN TRIBULATION?

Mt 5:32 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.

Jer 2:5 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Mt 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Ps 119:78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Ps 109:3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Ps 35:19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Job 2:3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause <02600>.

Joh 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They <hated me> WITHOUT A CAUSE.

Pr 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause <02600>; and deceive not with thy lips.ut this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Joh 19:4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.

1Pe 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile (deceit) <1388> found in his mouth:

Re 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile <1388>: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

1Pe 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile <1388>:

1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

2Ti 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

1Co 7:12 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.

1Co 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

DIVORCE FOR FORNICATION: GOD DIVORCES THE CHURCH WITH CAUSE?

Jer 3:8 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.

Mt 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Ge 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Jer 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

Jer 44:3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

Ho 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Eze 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

God appears to have set up spiritual fornication as the only cause for a separation (divorce). The Law, it seems, was first designed so that there would be no divorce for any reason. However, due to the unfaithful of ancient Israel and the church, God put a provision in the law allowing Him to divorce for fornication (adultery). And since the church separated from Christ without cause, adulterating the corporate marriage, God it seems had the right to permanently put away the unsaved body with cause.