Matthew 19:4-9
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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’a
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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’b?
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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
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Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
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I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
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