Teaching About Divorce

¹Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from nGalilee and oentered pthe region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²And qlarge crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

³And Pharisees came up to him and rtested him by asking, s“Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” ⁴He answered, t“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵and said, u‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and vthe two shall become one flesh’? ⁶So they are no longer two but one flesh. wWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” ⁷They said to him, x“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ⁸He said to them, “Because of your yhardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹zAnd I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”1

¹⁰The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” ¹¹But he said to them, a“Not everyone can receive this saying, but only bthose to cwhom it is given. ¹²For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs dfor the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”

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