Matthew 19:8
He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happened this way.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to divorce her?
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they became his wives, both of them.
Jeremiah 6:16Thus says LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk.
Malachi 2:13And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.
Matthew 8:31And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of swine.
1 Corinthians 7:6But I say this from concession not from commandment.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 19:4-13
The Law of Divorce. 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put… Read the whole commentary →