²And Pharisees came up and in order bto test him asked, c“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴They said, d“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” ⁵And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ehardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶But ffrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them gmale and female.’ ⁷h‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,1 ⁸and ithe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹jWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

¹⁰And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹And he said to them, k“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, ¹²and lif she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Let the Children Come to Me

¹³mAnd they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples nrebuked them. ¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, o“Let the children come to me; pdo not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. ¹⁵qTruly, I say to you, whoever does not rreceive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” ¹⁶And she took them in his arms and blessed them, tlaying his hands on them.

The Rich Young Man

¹⁷uAnd as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and vknelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to winherit eternal life?” ¹⁸And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. ¹⁹You know the commandments: x‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” ²⁰And he said to him, “Teacher, yall these I have kept from my youth.” ²¹And Jesus, zlooking at him, aloved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, bsell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have ctreasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” ²²dDisheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

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