Matthew 19:8

And he said to them, For Moses, for the hardness of your heart (s), suffered you to leave your wives, (or It was because of the hardness of your hearts, that Moses allowed you to leave your wives); but from the beginning it was not so.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

7They say to him, What then commanded Moses, to give a libel [or a little book] of forsaking, and (then) to leave of [or to forsake]? (And they said to him, Then why did Moses command us, to write a bill of forsaking, or a notice of divorce, and then we be able to leave, or to forsake, a woman?)

9And I say to you, that whoever leaveth his wife, [no] but for fornication, and weddeth another, doeth lechery [or doeth adultery]; and he that weddeth the forsaken wife, doeth lechery [or doeth adultery].

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Cross References

Genesis 2:24Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain in one flesh [or and two shall be in one flesh].

1 Samuel 25:43But also David took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and ever either was wife to him (or and they both became his wives);

Jeremiah 6:16The Lord saith these things, Stand ye on ways, and see ye, and ask ye of [the] eld paths, which is the good way; and go ye therein, and ye shall find refreshing to your souls. And they said, We shall not go. (The Lord saith these things, Stand ye at the crossways, and see ye, and ask ye for the old paths, and where is the good way; and go ye on it, and ye shall find refreshing for your souls. But they said, We shall not go on it.)

Malachi 2:13And again ye did this thing; ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, with weeping, and wailing; so that I behold no more to (the) sacrifice, neither receive anything (as) pleasant of your hand. (And ye also did this thing; ye covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and wailing; and so I shall no more look upon your sacrifice, nor receive anything as pleasing, or acceptable, from your hands.)

Matthew 8:31And the devils prayed him, and said, If thou castest out us from hence, send us into the drove of swine [or into the drove of hogs]. (And the demons beseeched him, and said, If thou throwest us out of here, then send us into that herd of pigs.)

1 Corinthians 7:6But I say this thing as giving leave [or 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 →

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