But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
I just posted scriptures from over 20 popular bible which all agree with each other, including the Catholic Douay Rheims version...And you post ONE contrary version which happens to be one of the most modern versions and which happens to be the most modern version put out by your religion...
In view of the evidence, I don't believe you have a credible source...The version you picked doesn't even seem to be very popular in your own religion...
The reason I cited the NAB translation was to illustrate another tenable interpretation of the "exception."
Scripture was not written as an encyclopedia or catechism. It was never intended that the reader was to go to it with discrete questions, and find discrete answers in discrete verses. In the Scripture itself, Jesus never utters a syllable that suggests that His Church was to be a body of people consulting written material. (What a preposterous idea, when books would remain monstrously expensive for another 1500 years.) What Jesus did was choose apostles to go out into the whole world and TEACH, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Every few years, a news item will appear about some poor soul who lets his Bible fall open at random, determined to "obey God," reads the verse that says, "...cut off your hand..." and does so.
You seem to approach the Gospel in much the same way.