Matthew 19:8
He says to them, “Moses for your stiffness of heart permitted you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
7They say to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?”
Cross References
Genesis 2:24therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43And David has taken Ahinoam from Jezreel, and they are—even both of them—for wives to him;
Jeremiah 6:16Thus said YHWH: “Stand by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, || Where [is] this—the good way? And go in it, || And find rest for yourselves. And they say, We do not go.
Malachi 2:13And you do this a second time, || Covering the altar of YHWH with tears, || With weeping and groaning, || Because there is no more turning to the present, || Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.
Matthew 8:31and the demons were calling on Him, saying, “If You cast us forth, permit us to go away into the herd of the pigs”;
1 Corinthians 7:6and this I say by way of concurrence—not of command,
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 →