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Matthew 19:5-6
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Matthew 19:5-6
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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’
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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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Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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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’?
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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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Genesis 2:24
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1 Corinthians 6:16
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Ephesians 5:31
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