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Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage (Contracts and Covenants).
The Jews believe, marriage is a unilateral covenant because of the bride price. They say, a man "acquired" his wife (Deuteronomy 24:1) as Abraham acquired land (Genesis 23:13). Jesus said, divorce was not an option at creation (Matthew 19:8 "from the beginning [divorce] was not so."). Covenants were for life ("till death do us part" and "do not separate what God joined together"). Moses mediated for the people and allowed man to put away his wife, under the law, because of the hardness of his heart. Nowhere in the New Testament does it say that a woman can take advantage of Moses unilateral permission he gave the man in the Old Testament. It's simply assumed because we (Gentiles) do not understand the difference between unilateral and bilateral covenants in the Bible (no longer practicing bride prices as seen in the Old Testament). Monogamous societies said men and women come together as equals limiting the number of wives a man could have. Gentiles practiced dowry (money given to the groom from the bride's family) instead of the bride price (money given to the bride's father from the groom). Gentile believers were not accustomed to patriarchal societies where a woman was acquired by the man with a bride (purchase) price, allowing polygamy. The Nations surrounding Israel (Rome and Ancient Greece) were monogamous at the time of Jesus.
When Jesus speaks about divorce and remarriage in the New Testament, he is speaking to the Jews about the Law of Moses. Only the man was allowed to initiate a divorce. The woman was not allowed to initiate a divorce, and if she did, being influenced by Roman civil law, she was not allowed to remarry (Mark 10:10-12).
1 Corinthians 7 is different than the Gospel, a mix of Jews and Gentiles, asking how to apply the Law of Moses to the Church in Greece. Was the woman allowed to divorce (1 Corinthians 7:10), and if she did, was she allowed to remarry (1 Corinthians 7:11)? They also wanted to know about believers who married unbelievers. Should they divorce, according to the Law, because they are unclean, idol worshippers (Ezra 10:3; 1 Corinthians 8:1) or should they stay married because of Jesus' commands not to separate (Matthew 19:6; 1 Corinthians 7:11) and there was no sexual immorality to warrant a divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1)? Paul tells them not to separate if they are willing to remain married because they are now sanctified through us (making the children holy instead of unclean). But he allows believers to separate for peace's sake (1 Corinthians 7:15). He explains, God's calling of peace supersedes the need to stay married in these types of situations. "For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?" (1 Corinthians 7:16).
