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Matthew 19:3
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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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Matthew 19:3 in Other Translations
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The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
ESV
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And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"
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Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
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One day the Pharisees were badgering him: "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
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Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?"
Matthew 19:3 In-Context
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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.
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Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
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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,’
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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’?
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Matthew 5:31
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