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