Matthew 19:8

“Because of your hard-hearted attitude Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it wasn't like that in the beginning,” Jesus replied.

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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

7“Then why did Moses give the command that a man could divorce his wife by giving her a written certificate of divorce, and sending her away?” they asked.

9“I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife except on the grounds of sexual immorality and then marries another woman, commits adultery.”

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Cross References

Genesis 2:24This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.

1 Samuel 25:43David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So they both were his wives.

Jeremiah 6:16This is what the Lord says: Go and stand where the roads divide, and look. Find out which are the old paths. Ask, “What's the right way?” Then follow it and you'll be content. But you refused, saying, “We won't go that way!”

Malachi 2:13Something else you do is to pour out your tears on the Lord's altar weeping and moaning because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or doesn't want to accept them.

Matthew 8:31The demons pleaded with him, “If you're going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

1 Corinthians 7:6I'm telling you this not as a command, but as a concession.

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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