Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife(A) for any and every reason?”

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](B) and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]?(C) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”(D)

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
  2. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24

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?

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

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?

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

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Nilapitan din siya ng mga Fariseo upang subukin siya.Sinabi nila sa kaniya: Naaayon ba sa kautusan na palayasin ng isang lalaki ang kaniyang asawa sa anumang dahilan?

Sumagot siya sa kanila: Hindi ba ninyo nabasa na siya na lumalang sa kanila sa pasimula pa ay nilalang sila na lalaki at babae? Sinabi pa niya: Dahil dito, iiwanan ng lalaki ang kaniyang ama at ina at makikisama sa kaniyang asawa. Silang dalawa ay magiging isang laman. Kung gayon, hindi na sila dalawa kundi isang laman. Ang pinagsama nga ng Diyos ay huwag paghiwalayin ng tao.

Sinabi nila sa kaniya: Kung gayon, bakit ipinag-utos ni Moises na magbigay ng isang kasulatan ng paghihiwalay bago palayasin ang babae?

Sinabi niya sa kanila: Dahil sa katigasan ng inyong mga puso kaya ipinahintulot ni Moises na palayasin ninyo ang inyong mga asawa. Ngunit hindi gayon sa pasimula.

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