* A man in our church filed divorce papers against his wife. I called him.

There is one scriptural time when a man can divorce his wife and that is if the wife is committing fornication.  (adultery)

Jesus said:  

Mt. 5:32   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.

I asked Joseph, "Is your wife committing fornication."

Joseph replied, "No."

I told him fornication is the only scriptural reason for a man to divorce his wife. 

If he divorces a "faithful wife" and that "faithful wife" remarries after he divorces her, he will be the cause of her adultery according to what Jesus says in Matthew 5:32

But if the wife is not pleased to live with him, let her depart.  

I Cor. 7:12  If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.  I Cor. 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Joseph withdrew the divorce proceedings from the government courts.

Consider Mk. 10 also:  Jesus says:

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

10 And in the house HIS disciples asked HIM again of the same matter.

11 And HE saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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Concerning a woman who wants to divorce her husband:

I Corinthians 7:10-11 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.

I Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Romans 1:1-3 

 1  Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

3  So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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