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Jesus is pretty clear in Mark 10 that divorce and remarriage is not what God intended.

1 He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them. 2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her." 5 But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.' 7 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." 10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

Matthew 19:4-9 offers a similar response but adds an exception for “porneia” which is often translated as adultery even though “moicheia” would have been the better word choice. In reality “porneia” probably refers to something the audience finds sexually inappropriate like a marriage relationship between close family members.

In Mark 12:25 it seems that the intention is for marriage to only be ended by the death of a spouse.

“When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.”

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