Matthew 19:4-9

English Standard Version

⁴ He answered, ^(A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said, ^(B)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(C)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^(D)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” ⁷ They said to him, ^(E)“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ⁸ He said to them, “Because of your ^(F)hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ^9 (G)And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”^[a]