Matthew 19:1–9
1When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.↗
2Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.↗
3Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”↗
4He answered,“Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,↗
5and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?↗
6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”↗
7They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”↗
8He said to them,“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.↗
9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”↗
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