⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

⁸ Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.^{(A) 3} So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress.^(B) But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

³⁹ A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives.^(A) But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.^(B)