Mark 10:5

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Jesus said to them, 'He wrote this commandment for you because of the hardness of your hearts.'

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  • Matt 19:8 : 8 He said to them, "Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not this way from the beginning."
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments. 17 They refused to listen and did not remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, and You did not abandon them.
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
  • Deut 9:6 : 6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw my works. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always wandering, and they have not known my ways.'

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  • Matt 19:3-11
    9 verses
    84%

    3Some Pharisees came to him, testing him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

    4He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, made them male and female?"

    5And he said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.

    7They said to him, "Why then did Moses command that a certificate of divorce be given and the woman sent away?"

    8He said to them, "Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not this way from the beginning."

    9I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman also commits adultery.

    10The disciples said to him, "If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry."

    11But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given."

  • Mark 10:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2Some Pharisees approached him to test him, asking, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?'

    3Jesus answered them, 'What did Moses command you?'

    4They replied, 'Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.'

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    76%

    31It has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'

    32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:6-12
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    75%

    6'But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.'

    7'For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,'

    8'and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one.'

    9'Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.'

    10Back at the house, the disciples asked him again about this matter.

    11He told them, 'Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.'

    12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.

  • Matt 15:3
    71%

    3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

  • John 8:5-6
    2 verses
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    5In the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"

    6They said this to test him, so they might have grounds to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and began writing on the ground with his finger.

  • Matt 5:38
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    38You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

  • Matt 5:27
    69%

    27You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

  • Mark 8:17
    68%

    17Aware of this, Jesus said to them, 'Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened?'

  • Luke 20:34
    68%

    34Jesus replied to them, 'The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

  • Luke 5:22
    67%

    22Knowing their thoughts, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?"

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    67%

    6Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he dealt severely with them, didn’t they let the Israelites go, and they departed?

  • Exod 10:1
    67%

    1The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, so that I may perform these signs of mine among them."

  • Mark 7:9
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    9He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.

  • Matt 15:5-7
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    5But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

    6they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

    7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying,

  • Mark 3:5
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    5Looking around at them with anger and deeply distressed at the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.

  • Matt 22:29
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    29Jesus answered them, 'You are mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1If a man marries a woman but she does not find favor in his eyes because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, give it to her, and send her away from his house.

  • Matt 22:31
    66%

    31And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:

  • Matt 9:4
    66%

    4But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, 'Why do you think evil in your hearts?'

  • Mark 2:27
    66%

    27Then he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.'

  • Eph 5:31
    66%

    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • Mark 7:12
    65%

    12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

  • Mark 6:52
    65%

    52for they had not understood about the loaves; their hearts were hardened.

  • Mark 12:24
    65%

    24Jesus replied, 'Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?'

  • Deut 10:16
    65%

    16Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your hearts and do not be stiff-necked any longer.

  • Matt 15:10
    65%

    10Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand:

  • Exod 7:13
    65%

    13Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

  • Mark 2:8
    65%

    8And immediately, Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning within themselves in this way, said to them, 'Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?'

  • Exod 9:12
    65%

    12But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said to Moses.