Mark 10:1-12

Divorce and remarriage

1 Jesus left that place and went beyond the Jordan and into the region of Judea. Crowds gathered around him again and, as usual, he taught them.

2 Some Pharisees came and, trying to test him, they asked, "Does the Law allow a man to divorce his wife?"

3 Jesus answered, " What did Moses command you?"

4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a divorce certificate and to divorce his wife."

5 Jesus said to them, " He wrote this commandment for you because of your unyielding hearts.

6 At the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

7 Because of this, a man should leave his father and mother and be joined together with his wife,

8 and the two will be one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.

9 Therefore, humans must not pull apart what God has put together."

10 Inside the house, the disciples asked him again about this.

11 He said to them, " Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;

12 and if a wife divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

Footnotes

• [a] Gen 1:27
• [b] Gen 2:24