Mark 10:2-12

Modern English Version

² The Pharisees came to test Him, asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

³ He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”

⁴ They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”

⁵ Jesus answered them, “Due to the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. ⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’^{[a] 7} ‘For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, ⁸ and the two shall be one flesh.’^[b] So then they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”

¹⁰ In the house His disciples asked Him concerning this matter again. ¹¹ He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹² And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”