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

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