Matthew 19:8
He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.
Jeremiah 6:16Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask for the old paths which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: we will not walk.
Malachi 2:13And this again have you done, you have covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so that I have no more a regard to sacrifice, neither do I accept any atonement at your hands.
Matthew 8:31And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.
1 Corinthians 7:6But I speak this by indulgence, not by 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 →