Old Testament

Matthew 19:4-9
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?”
8Jesus said to them, “Because of your hard hearts, Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it was not that way from the beginning. 9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the grounds of her sexual immorality, and marries another woman is committing adultery.”[]

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.