Marriage and Divorce
1 Then
He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side
of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed,
He taught them again. 2 The Pharisees came and
asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a
certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.” 5
And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your
heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the
beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ 7
‘For this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become
one flesh’;so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 10
In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.
11 So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries
another commits adultery against her. 12 And if
a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”