Mark 10:2-12

2 And Pharisees came up and in order 1to test him asked, 2"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
4 They said, 3"Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."
5 And Jesus said to them, "Because of your 4hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 But 5from the beginning of creation, 'God made them 6male and female.'
7 7'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a]
8 and 8the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9 9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11 And he said to them, 10"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
12 and 11if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

Cross References 11

  • 1. See John 8:6
  • 2. Matthew 5:31
  • 3. Deuteronomy 24:1-4
  • 4. Mark 16:14; [Mark 3:5; Mark 6:52; Hebrews 3:8]
  • 5. Mark 13:19; 2 Peter 3:4; [Romans 1:20]
  • 6. Cited from Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2
  • 7. Ephesians 5:31; Cited from Genesis 2:24
  • 8. 1 Corinthians 6:16; [Malachi 2:15]
  • 9. 1 Corinthians 7:10
  • 10. See Matthew 5:32
  • 11. 1 Corinthians 7:11, 13

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
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