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Mark 10:2-12
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Mark 10:2-12
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Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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“What did Moses command you?”
he replied.
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They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
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“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,”
Jesus replied.
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“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’
[a]
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‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
[b]
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and the two will become one flesh.’
[c]
So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this.
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He answered,
“Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.
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And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
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1.
Mark 2:16
2.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
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Matthew 5:31
3.
Psalms 95:8
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Hebrews 3:15
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Genesis 1:27
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Genesis 5:2
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Genesis 2:24
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1 Corinthians 6:16
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Matthew 5:32
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Luke 16:18
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Romans 7:3
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1 Corinthians 7:10,11
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[a].
Gen. 1:27
[b].
Some early manuscripts do not have "and be united to his wife."
[c].
Gen. 2:24
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