Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”(A)

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created[a] them in the beginning made them male and female,”(B)[b] and He also said:

For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh?(C)[c]

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:4 Other mss read made
  2. Matthew 19:4 Gn 1:27; 5:2
  3. Matthew 19:5 Gn 2:24

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