Matthew 19:8

World English Bible (2000)

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

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  • Mal 2:13-14 : 13 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.
  • Mark 10:5 : 5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Don't harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • Zech 7:12 : 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
  • Matt 8:31 : 31 The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."

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

    4He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

  • Mark 10:2-12
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    2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

    3He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

    4They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

    5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

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

    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

    8and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

    10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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    9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

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    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

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