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Divorce
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When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.
2
Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
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“Haven’t you read,”
he replied,
“that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
[a]
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’
[b]
?
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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8
Jesus replied,
“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
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I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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Matthew 7:28
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Matthew 4:23
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Matthew 5:31
4.
Genesis 1:27
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Genesis 5:2
5.
Genesis 2:24
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1 Corinthians 6:16
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Ephesians 5:31
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Deuteronomy 24:1-4
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Matthew 5:31
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Matthew 5:32
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Luke 16:18
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[a].
Gen. 1:27
[b].
Gen. 2:24
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