Matthew 19:8
He said to them, “For your hardness of heart, Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not that way.
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Genesis 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, he will be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43Now David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel as a wife; both of them became his wives.
Jeremiah 6:16Yahweh says this, “Stand at the road crossing and look; ask for the ancient pathways. 1 'Where is this good way?' Then go on it and find a resting place for yourselves. 1 But the people say, 'We will not go.' 1
Malachi 2:13You also do this: You cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping and sighing, because he still does not turn toward the offering or accept it with favor from your hand.
Matthew 8:31The demons kept imploring Jesus and saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into that herd of pigs.”
1 Corinthians 7:6But I say these things to you as a concession and not as a 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 →