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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

路加福音 16:18

凡休妻另娶的,就犯了姦淫;娶被丈夫所休的,也是犯了姦淫。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Divorce;   Marriage;   Scofield Reference Index - Parables;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divorce;   Foes of the Home;   Home;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;   Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Divorce;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Immorality, Sexual;   Marriage;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Family;   Luke, Gospel of;   Marriage;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Celibacy (2);   Discourse;   Divorce (2);   Dress (2);   Gospels (2);   Marriage;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Sermon on the Mount;   Steward, Stewardship;   Violence;   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Divorce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Divorce in New Testament;   Marriage;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 30;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
凡 休 妻 另 娶 的 就 是 犯 奸 淫 ; 娶 被 休 之 妻 的 也 是 犯 奸 淫 。

Contextual Overview

1 Jesus also said to his followers, "Once there was a rich man who had a manager to take care of his business. This manager was accused of cheating him. 2 So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give me a report of what you have done with my money, because you can't be my manager any longer.' 3 The manager thought to himself, ‘What will I do since my master is taking my job away from me? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I'll do so that when I lose my job people will welcome me into their homes.' 5 "So the manager called in everyone who owed the master any money. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe?' 6 He answered, ‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil.' The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write four hundred gallons.' 7 Then the manager asked another one, ‘How much do you owe?' He answered, ‘One thousand bushels of wheat.' Then the manager said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eight hundred bushels.' 8 So, the master praised the dishonest manager for being clever. Yes, worldly people are more clever with their own kind than spiritual people are. 9 "I tell you, make friends for yourselves using worldly riches so that when those riches are gone, you will be welcomed in those homes that continue forever. 10 Whoever can be trusted with a little can also be trusted with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with a little is dishonest with a lot.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 5:32, Matthew 19:9, Mark 10:11, Mark 10:12, 1 Corinthians 7:4, 1 Corinthians 7:10-12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:1 - send her Malachi 2:16 - the Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whosoever putteth away his wife,.... For any other cause than for adultery, as the Jews used to do upon every trifling occasion, and for every little disgust: by which instance our Lord shows, how the Jews abused and depraved the law, and as much as in them lay, caused it to fail; and how he, on the other hand, was so far from destroying and making it of none effect, that he maintained the purity and spirituality of it; putting them in mind of what he had formerly said, and of many other things of the like kind along with it; how that if a man divorces his wife, for any thing else but the defiling his bed,

and marrieth another, committeth adultery: with her that he marries: because his marriage with the former still continues, and cannot be made void by, such a divorce:

and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband; the phrase "from her husband", is omitted in the Syriac and Persic versions:

committeth adultery; with her that he marries, because notwithstanding her husband's divorce of her, and his after marriage with her, she still remains his lawful and proper wife;

:-. The Ethiopic version reads this last clause, quite different from all others, thus, "and whosoever puts away her husband, and joins to another, commits adultery", agreeably to

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 5:32. These verses occur in Matthew in a different order, and it is not improbable that they were spoken by our Saviour at different times. The design, here, seems to be to reprove the Pharisees for not observing the law of Moses, notwithstanding their great pretensions to external righteousness, and to show them that they had “really” departed from the law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 16:18. Putteth away (or divorceth) his wife — See on Matthew 5:31; Matthew 5:32; Matthew 19:9; Matthew 19:10; Mark 10:12; where the question concerning divorce is considered at large. These verses, from the 13th to the 18th Luke 16:13-18 inclusive, appear to be part of our Lord's sermon on the mount; and stand in a much better connection there than they do here; unless we suppose our Lord delivered the same discourse at different times and places, which is very probable.


 
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