Teaching About Divorce

10 ^zAnd he left there and went ^ato the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, andcrowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

2 And Pharisees came up and in order ^bto test him asked, ^c“Is it lawful for a man todivorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said,^d“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesussaid to them, “Because of your ^ehardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But^ffrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^gmale and female.’ 7 ^h‘Therefore a manshall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,¹ 8 and ⁱthe two shall becomeone flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 ^jWhat therefore God has joinedtogether, let not man separate.”

10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said tothem, ^k“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,12 and ^lif she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”