I caught my wife being intimate with another man. Can I divorce her?<\/p>\n\t
“And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery<\/em>” (Matthew 19:6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you decide that this marriage cannot work because of her on-going adulterous relationships, then you are permitted to divorce your wife and you can then marry another woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I caught my wife being intimate with another man. Can I divorce her? Answer: “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery” (Matthew 19:6). If you decide that this marriage cannot work because of her on-going adulterous relationships, then you are permitted to divorce…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[66,167],"class_list":["post-20387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-adultery","tag-divorce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15678,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/does-divorce-disqualify-a-man-from-being-an-elder\/","url_meta":{"origin":20387,"position":0},"title":"Does divorce disqualify a man from being an elder?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Does divorce disqualify a man from being an elder? 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