Mark 10:2-9
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2 Some,[a] testing him, asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”(A) 5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’(B) 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,[b](C) 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.(D) 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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