Matthew 19:8
He saith to them — 'Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
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 doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
1 Samuel 25:43And Ahinoam hath David taken from Jezreel, and they are — even both of them — to him for wives;
Jeremiah 6:16Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where [is] this — the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, 'We do not go.'
Malachi 2:13And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.
Matthew 8:31and the demons were calling on him, saying, 'If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'
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 →