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Mark 10:2-12
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Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?”
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Jesus answered them with a question: “What did Moses say in the law about divorce?”
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“Well, he permitted it,” they replied. “He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.”
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But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts.
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But ‘God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation.
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‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,
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and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one,
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let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
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Later, when he was alone with his disciples in the house, they brought up the subject again.
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He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery against her.
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And if a woman divorces her husband and marries someone else, she commits adultery.”
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[a].
See Deut 24:1 .
[b].
Gen 1:27 ; 5:2 .
[c].
Some manuscripts do not include and is joined to his wife.
[d].
Gen 2:24 .
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