What is the TRUE meaning of Matthew 19:9? I see and hear about so many divorces, it's like it is an EPIDEMIC!?

I see so-call Christians divorcing their spouse for any and everything. I see husbands cheating on their wives, I know about wives (some even my friends) deceitfully planning on how to get out of their rocky marriage in order to be with some other man..I mean what is the deal? You see when I read Matthew 19:9 which JESUS says '; I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.'; World English Bible


Well, to me that means that the only way that one can divorce their mate is if their mate committed adultery. If that is the case then why is it that anybody can get a divorce for any reason and it be considered valid? I guess if someone did get a divorce for any reason that wasn't adultery, wouldn't they really still be married, according to the BIBLE? It just seems to me that if we all followed this standard stated in the Bible, it would make the divorce rate go down and I think that people would would become more cautious about just rushing in and getting married. I am so sad when I see and hear about how soooo many people are getting divorced.What is the TRUE meaning of Matthew 19:9? I see and hear about so many divorces, it's like it is an EPIDEMIC!?
Your interpretation is good. Jesus, the Son of God who worked with the Father and the Holy Spirit to create the universe out of nothing, understood marriage completely. He taught us that the only legitimate justification for a man divorcing his wife is her adultery with another man, which can cause diseases affecting both partners and which destroys confidence in the paternity of children, endangering their future.





A couple can separate without a legal divorce, e.g., in cases of abuse. This avoids adultery through remarriage. As I Cor 7 shows, a single life allows a greater devotion to God. See verses 32-34: ';An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs鈥攈ow he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world鈥攈ow he can please his wife鈥攁nd his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world鈥攈ow she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.';





If a marriage remains open to divorce, it is really not a marriage at all. What sort of true love would declare, ';I love you so much that I want your body now, but not later in sickness or old age?'; Not real love. Thus, it is important to have tribunals in the church to examine whether a real marriage promise was ever made. If not, a divorce is not necessary because no marriage existed, and the supposed marriage can be annulled.





Cheers,


BruceWhat is the TRUE meaning of Matthew 19:9? I see and hear about so many divorces, it's like it is an EPIDEMIC!?
That's the ticket, let's make men and women live with people they no longer love, let's make woment stick with men who beat them, who beat their children. Yes, let's make divorces harder to get, and after that let's work on putting women back in the kitchen where they belong. Then we can stop teaching female children to read so they stop getting uppity ideals and and and !!!!1!11onety one.
Family that prays together stays together.





Also it is good to be upfront and honest and transparant with each other at all times. Becasue when you are honest,. darkness cannot thrive.





Happily, blessed and married 12 years
Divorce used to be very hard to get. LIBERALS are the ones who made it easy to get.
I think there must be something to this. For me, letting go came very easy twice after my spouses were with someone else. The marriage just felt completed
I agree with your post,and it would appear that marriage today for so many is simply a badge of convenience and treated as a throw away commodity. Jesus elevated matrimony to the same status it had originally possessed between Adam and Eve鈥攖he status of a sacrament.so any valid marriage between two baptized peoples is a sacramental marriage and once consummated, cannot be dissolved. Jesus, therefore, taught that if anyone so married divorces and remarries, that person is living in perpetual adultery, a state of mortal sin.





He said, ';Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery'; (Luke 16:18; cf. Mark 10:11鈥?2).





Paul was equally insistent on this fact, declaring, ';Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. . . . Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive'; (Rom. 7:2鈥?).





This applied, of course, only to sacramental marriages鈥攖hose between baptized people. For marriages involving an unbaptized party, a different rule applied (1 Cor. 7:12鈥?5).





If, however, the parties are genuinely and sacramentally married, then, while in some cases there may be good reasons for them to live apart and even to obtain a legal separation, in God鈥檚 eyes they are not free to remarry (CCC 1649).





This is not a commandment of men, but one that comes directly from Jesus Christ. As Paul said, ';To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband)鈥攁nd that the husband should not divorce his wife'; (1 Cor. 7:10-11).


Almost all denominations allow for divorce today and this goes against scripture but sadly this does not seem to matter anymore.


God bless.