Matthew 19:1-6

The Question of Divorce

1 When Jesus had finished this instruction, He departed from Galilee and went to the region of Judea across the Jordan.

2 Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?"

4 "Haven't you read," He replied, "that He who created ^[a] them in the beginning made them male and female , ^[b]

5 and He also said: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh ? ^[c]

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."