Matthew 19:8
He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7They said to him, Why did then Moses commaund to giue a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away?
Cross References
Genesis 2:24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43Dauid also tooke Ahinoam of Izreel, and they were both his wiues.
Jeremiah 6:16Thus sayeth the Lord, Stande in the waies and beholde, and aske for the olde way, which is the good way and walke therein, and yee shall finde rest for your soules: but they saide, We will not walke therein.
Malachi 2:13And this haue ye done againe, and couered the altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping and with mourning: because the offering is no more regarded, neither receiued acceptably at your handes.
Matthew 8:31And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.
1 Corinthians 7:6But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.
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 →