Matthew 19:3-5

3 And Pharisees came up to him and ¹tested him by asking, ²"Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"

4 He answered, ³"Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

5 and said, ⁴'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ⁵the two shall become one flesh'?

Cross References

• 1. John 8:6
• 2. Matthew 5:31
• 3. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:18, 21-23; Genesis 5:2; [Matthew 21:16]
• 4. Ephesians 5:31; Cited from Genesis 2:24
• 5. 1 Corinthians 6:16; [Malachi 2:15]