Luke 16:18
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Luke 16:18 in other translations
| BSB | Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. |
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| WEB | “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery. |
| ASV | Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery. |
| YLT | ‘Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery. |
| DARBY | Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery. |
| BBE | Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her. |
| Webster | Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and whoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adultery. |
What does Luke 16:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 16:14-18
14-18. covetous ... derided him--sneered at Him; their master sin being too plainly struck at for them to relish. But it was easier to run down than to refute such teaching.
Barnes' Notes
(m) "putteth away his wife" Mt 5:32, 1Cor 7:10,11
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 16:13-18
To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions with contempt. But he warned them, that what they contended for as the law, was a wresting of its meaning: this our Lord showed in a case respecting divorce. There are many covetous sticklers for the forms of godliness, who are…
Luke 16:18 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 16:18
- Matthew 19:9
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.
- Mark 10:11-12
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
- Matthew 5:31-32
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 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 7:10-12
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 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 7:4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
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Context
- Luke 16:17
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
- Luke 16:18
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
- Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke 16:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cualquiera que repudia á su mujer, y se casa con otra, adultera: y el que se casa con la repudiada del marido, adultera. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Quiconque répudie sa femme et en épouse une autre, commet adultère; et quiconque épouse une femme répudiée par son mari, commet adultère. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jeder, der sein Weib entläßt und eine andere heiratet, begeht Ehebruch; und jeder, der die von einem Manne Entlassene heiratet, begeht Ehebruch. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnis qui dimittit uxorem suam et alteram ducit, mœchatur: et qui dimissam a viro ducit, mœchatur. |