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Matthew 19:1-7
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Matthew 19:1-7
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When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2
Large crowds followed him, and he cured them there.
3
Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"
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He answered, "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning "made them male and female,'
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and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall 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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They said to him, "Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?"
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