Matthew 19:1-6

Teaching About Divorce

1 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from ¹Galilee and ²entered ³the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

2 And ⁴large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And Pharisees came up to him and ⁵tested him by asking, ⁶"Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"

4 He answered, ⁷"Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

5 and said, ⁸'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ⁹the two shall become one flesh'?

6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. ¹⁰What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."