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Matthew 19:3-9; Mark 10:1-12; Luke 16:18
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Matthew 19:3-9
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And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
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He answered, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
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So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."
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They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
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He said to them, "For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
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And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Mark 10:1-12
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And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
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And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "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, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."
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But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
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But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'
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'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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and 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 put asunder."
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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, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;
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and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Luke 16:18
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"Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.