² And the Pharisees came to Him and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?” — testing Him.

³ And He answered and said unto them, “What did Moses command you?”

⁴ And they said, “Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.”

⁵ And Jesus answered and said unto them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, ’God made them male and female.

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.’ So then they are no more two, but one flesh.

⁹ What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

¹⁰ And in the house His disciples asked Him again about the same matter.

¹¹ And He said unto them, “Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

¹² And if a woman shall put away her husband and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”