Web transcription of the official 2026 PDF, with links (Crown & Covenant Publications), or the unchanged file. Punctuation is adapted for the website; the original PDF governs.Transcribed from the official 2026 PDF, with links (or the unchanged file). Punctuation is adapted for the website; the original PDF governs.
Matthew 19:9
The 2026 edition cites 2 passages containing Matthew 19:9, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
Matthew 19:8-9
8 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.
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.
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 24.6
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but…
Matthew 19:9
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.
Cited by 2 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 24.5
Adultery or fornication committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract. In…
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 24.27
If the unrepentant guilty party in a divorce marries another, he commits adultery.