Matthew 19:8

He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

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In The King James Version

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

In Context

7They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

1 Samuel 25:43And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.

Jeremiah 6:16This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Malachi 2:13And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

Matthew 8:31And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.

1 Corinthians 7:6But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

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 →

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