Lack
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.1. . . only one ground for divorce - lack of sexual faithfulness - . . .

Language
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . servant of the other. This language of 'service' and . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . changed the harsh legalistic language of Ex.21.10f ('love, . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . also avoided legalistic language, and used terms like . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . , protect'. This same type of language found its way into . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . words, because liturgical language has become somewhat . . .

Large
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . on this, he spoke about a large number of other matters . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.7. . . Christian morality is too large an issue to discuss here . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . are impractical, and leave a large minority of believers . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.2. . . caused great suffering for a large minority. The State now . . .

Largely
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.1. . . New Testament epistles were largely written to a mixture . . .

Last
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . would naturally think of the last meaning. It was similar . . .

Later
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.1. . . divorce, with one exception. Later Church Fathers pointed . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.3. . . that Matthew or the church later added the exception for . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.4. . . matter [Dt.24.1]."/The later account in the Jerusalem . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . God divorcing Israel and later temporarily separating . . .

Latin
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . . It was similar to the Latin univira, 'a one-man . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . amalgamation of the ancient Latin and early English . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . marriage service. In the Latin portion, the man vows to . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . are based on this ancient Latin and early vernacular . . .

Law
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . : 'Of course, because the Law says so!' (i.e. in Deut.24 . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . Jesus his opinion of what the Law meant, and in particular . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . teaching was contrary to the Law. This would mean that . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . , as the Old Testament law demanded. In this . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . for adultery in Graeco-Roman law, though in practice this . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.9. . . both Graeco-Roman and Jewish law. We now know that Judaism . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.6. . . asked Jesus: "Does the Law (i.e. Deut.24.1) allow . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . of the 613 commands of the Law which every man had to . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.5. . . , in accordance with Jewish law, Graeco-Roman law and the . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.5. . . with Jewish law, Graeco-Roman law and the teaching of Jesus. . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . full force of Greek and Roman law to enforce it. Also, to a . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . metaphor about Jesus and the Law. Paul says that the Jewish . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . who is still married to the Law. The believer has no . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . for divorce because the Law never breaks any marriage . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . will end in death. But the Law will not die. The Good . . .
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.2. . . ends their marriage to the Law, and frees them to marry . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . both Jewish and Graeco-Roman law, that it would require a . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . after a divorce, though this law was rarely enforced, so . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.3. . . tell Christians to break the law if he had forbidden . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . mutual separation. The Family Law Act of 1996 attempted to . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.4. . . area, so they have used the law of the State as a basis of . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.3. . . peace', which means 'when the law fails, we follow a . . .

Lawful
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a person to divorce . . .
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.4. . . meaningless. They ask: 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . someone asking, "Is it lawful for someone under 18 to . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . , the question "Is it lawful for a man to divorce . . .

Laws
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.1. . . 23 without studying Jewish laws about tithing and . . .

Lawyers
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . a man took a second wife. The lawyers argued that if a slave . . .

Lay
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.1. . . the sinfulness of divorce lay in the breaking of . . .

Leader
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.1. . . Pastorals say that a church leader should be 'a man of one . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.2. . . different ways:/a) a church leader must be married, or/b) . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.8. . . are not saying that a church leader had to be married, or . . .

Leadership
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.3. . . and, more recently, female leadership, gifts of the Holy . . .

Learned
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . stubbornly broken. They also learned from Scripture that . . .

Least
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.6. . . Jesus' teaching, or could at least fit in with the spirit . . .

Leave
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . , For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.2 Para.2. . . , they are impractical, and leave a large minority of . . .

Left
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . . Once their partner had left them, the divorce had . . .

Legal
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . are actually Jewish technical legal terms. Any Jew in the 1 . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . divorce' was one where the legal paper-work was . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . unless we can understand the legal jargon which Jesus is . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.8. . . to a well-known and current legal debate./By the second . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.9. . . Hillelites, who took over all legal and religious . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.10. . . it was preserved in the legal records of early . . .
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.1. . . , under the Graeco-Roman legal system./The most common . . .

Legalistic
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.3. . . , turned his back on this legalistic approach. Instead . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . has changed the harsh legalistic language of Ex.21.1 . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . contracts also avoided legalistic language, and used . . .

Legislation
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.3. . . unworkable./The direction of legislation has therefore been . . .

Let
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . God has joined together, let not man separate." (7) . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . if the unbeliever separates, let them separate; the brother . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . Orthodox Church decided to let the State deal with . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.3. . . 'Those whom God has joined, let no-one separate' have . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . . As shown above, the command 'let no man separate' implied . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.4 Para.3. . . As shown above, the command 'let no man separate' implied . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.4. . . comfort to those whom I have let down and hurt. I ask you . . .

Letters
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.5. . . them./I have used capital letters at the start of 'Any . . .

Lev
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.2. . . in Exod.21.10, Deut.21.15 and Lev.18.18) and it was still . . .

Life
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . eunuch - i.e. live a celibate life - whereas Rabbinic . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.3. . . behalf, and generally live life as she wished. She could . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.5. . . couple's wedding and future life.)/This has been extremely . . .

Lifelong
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.3. . . 2) Marriage is designed to be lifelong, so divorce should be . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.3. . . to teach monogamy and lifelong marriage. He did not . . .

Life-long
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.1. . . was that marriage should be life-long, and that divorce . . .

Lifting
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.3. . . whether this is due to the lifting of restrictions, or . . .

Light
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . (as listed above). In the light of this, it is very . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . the marriage was over./In the light of Paul's view, we need . . .

Limit
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . answered those who wanted to limit sexual relations within . . .

Limited
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.1. . . only get a divorce for a limited number of grounds . . .

List
Chap.3 Sect.5 Para.3. . . is providing an exhaustive list of the ways in which a . . .

Listed
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.2. . . to several other matters, as listed above./Jesus' words . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . Jer.3.1-5; Is.50.1). Ezekiel listed the marriage vows which . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.1. . . all branches of Judaism (as listed above). In the light of . . .

Listeners
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . he meant by this, but his listeners would probably think . . .

Literal
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.1. . . is translated here in a very literal way. The words which . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.4. . . translated here in a very literal way, in order to . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.5. . . ./These translations are as literal as English allows. . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . mental adultery was not a literal ground for divorce. . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . divorce, would not be a literal ground for divorce./ . . .

Literally
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.3. . . his own flesh, but nourishes [literally 'feeds'] and . . .

Little
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.3. . . divorce her, there would be little point in telling her to . . .

Liturgical
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . vows./The oldest English liturgical tradition is . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . these exact words, because liturgical language has . . .

Liturgy
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . early versions of the English liturgy which was drawn up in . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . and early vernacular English liturgy. This means that . . .

Live
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . wife, and she is content to live with him, he ought not . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . husband, and he is content to live with her, she ought not . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.6. . . choose to be a eunuch - i.e. live a celibate life - whereas . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.3. . . her own behalf, and generally live life as she wished. She . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2 Para.1. . . day separation of couples who live together without a . . .

Lived
Chap.3 Sect.1 Para.1. . . of Greeks and Jews who lived outside Palestine, under . . .

Live-in
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . mistress, and many also had a live-in concubine./Therefore . . .

Lives
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.4. . . so long time as her husband lives; but if the husband . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.6. . . while a former spouse lives. If the indissoluble . . .
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.7. . . to one man throughout their lives. This relatively rare . . .

Living
Chap.3 Sect.6 Para.6. . . is still married to a former living spouse, so they would . . .

Logical
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . Jesus was merely stating the logical outcome of remarriage . . .

London
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.4. . . G. Wenham, Jesus and Divorce (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 19 . . .

Long
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.4. . . .7.39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband lives . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.6. . . ). He replied, after a long digression, that this . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.2. . . . The Pharisees discussed how long a couple could abstain . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.1 Para.2. . . , desertion, insanity or long terms of imprisonment . . .

Longer
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.2. . . [Gen.2.24] (6) So they are no longer two but one flesh. What . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.1. . . divorce, the believer is 'no longer enslaved':/1Cor.7.10-15 . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . ; the brother or sister is no longer enslaved in such [cases . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.4. . . , they are 'no longer enslaved' (1Cor.7.15). . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.2. . . a betrothal./The phrase 'no longer enslaved' is also . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.3. . . man you wish'./The phrase 'no longer enslaved' is especially . . .
Chap.3 Sect.4 Para.5. . . ../When Paul said 'you are no longer enslaved' to someone . . .
Chap.4 Sect.2 Para.2. . . so he said that they were 'no longer enslaved'./This was as . . .

Look
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.5. . . synonymous, and before we look for distinctions we must . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.8. . . century accepted. We will now look at those other grounds, . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.4. . . of Paul's view, we need to look again at Jesus' . . .

Looking
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.3. . . , but Paul was not. Before looking at Paul, we must . . .

Lord
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . I command (not I, but the Lord): A wife ought not to . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.2. . . other matters I say, not the Lord: If any brother has an . . .
Chap.1 Sect.2 Para.4. . . whom she wishes; only in the Lord./These translations are . . .
Chap.3 Sect.2 Para.4. . . should marry 'only in the Lord' (1Cor.7.39) though this . . .

Lost
Chap.1 Sect.4 Para.8. . . changed greatly when the Jews lost the right to impose . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.10. . . Gospel accounts was therefore lost to the early Church . . .
Chap.4 Sect.3 Para.2. . . generations, the Church had lost all knowledge of the . . .
Chap.5 Sect.3 Para.2. . . breaks their vows./The church lost touch with the Jewish . . .

Love
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.1. . . as the importance of mutual love and respect, but the . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.5. . . her food, clothing or love'. This text referred . . .
Chap.2 Sect.5 Para.6. . . neglect of 'food, clothing or love' were the main grounds . . .
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . of 'food clothing and love' were terms in a marriage . . .
Chap.2 Sect.7 Para.2. . . neglect of 'food, clothing or love'./Jesus was silent on . . .
Chap.3 Sect.3 Para.6. . . support ('food, clothing and love'). Although Paul did not . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.1. . . neglect of food, clothing or love (Exod.21.10f), and that . . .
Chap.4 Sect.1 Para.3. . . neglect of food, clothing and love./ . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.1. . . for divorce (neglect of 'love, food and clothing'), . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.1. . . for divorce (neglect of 'love, food and clothing'), . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.2. . . 8f where husbands are told to love, feed and clothe their . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.3. . . 5.28f Even so husbands should love their wives as their own . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . language of Ex.21.10f ('love, feed and clothe') into . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . language of Ex.21.10f ('love, feed and clothe') into . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . ) into more caring terms ('love, nourish and cherish'). . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.4. . . ) into more caring terms ('love, nourish and cherish'). . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.8. . . God and the congregation to love, feed, clothe and be . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.3 Para.3. . . of 'food, clothing and love', so they had valid . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.4. . . , and who has promised to love me unconditionally, I . . .
Chap.5 Sect.2.5 Para.4. . . not kept. I have promised to love and care for others, and . . .

Loved
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . which Israel had broken: God loved Israel and he provided . . .

Lovers
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . them to feed and clothe her lovers, the idols, with whom . . .

Loves
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.3. . . as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. . . .
Chap.5 Sect.1 Para.3. . . bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (29) For no man . . .

Luke
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.1. . . on the Mount (Matt.5.31f, Luke 16.18). The version in . . .
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . others think that Mark and Luke omitted them when they . . .
Chap.2 Sect.1 Para.7. . . is preserved in Mark and Luke, did not contain these . . .
Chap.2 Sect.2 Para.4. . . forgive those who repent (Luke 17.3f)./4) Marriage . . .
Chap.2 Sect.3 Para.1. . . the older account in Mark and Luke did not need to be . . .
Chap.2 Sect.4 Para.1. . . of Jesus' teaching (in Luke 16.18) said simply that . . .

Lukes
Chap.1 Sect.1 Para.3. . . the short saying, and not in Luke's version of the saying. . . .

Luther
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . , such as Erasmus and Luther, allowed remarriage of . . .
Chap.1 Sect.3 Para.3. . . death of their former spouse. Luther and Calvin even allowed . . .

Lxx
Chap.2 Sect.6 Para.2. . . her 'hard-hearted' (Jer.4.4 LXX). Although God was the . . .