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Matthew 19:1-9
Marriage and Divorce
191When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3Some Pharisees came in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4He answered, “Haven't you read that from the beginning their Maker ‘made them male and female,’[] 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and remain united to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’?[] 6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
7They asked him, “Then why did Moses command a man to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Footnotes
- 19:4 Genesis 1:27
- 19:5 Genesis 2:24
- 19:9 Some witnesses to the text add the words And the one who marries the divorced woman also commits adultery.