Mark 10:2-8

2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

3 “What did Moses command you?” he replied.

4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

5 “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied.

6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’^[a]

7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,^[b]

8 and the two will become one flesh.’^[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 2:16
• 2. Deuteronomy 24:1-4; Matthew 5:31
• 3. Psalms 95:8; Hebrews 3:15
• 4. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2
• 5. Genesis 2:24; 1 Corinthians 6:16

Footnotes

• [a]. Gen. 1:27
• [b]. Some early manuscripts do not have "and be united to his wife."
• [c]. Gen. 2:24