Matthew 19:3-9
3 And Pharisees came up to him and atested him by asking, b“Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, a“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, a‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and bthe two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. aWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to him, a“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your ahardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 aAnd I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
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