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Some Pharisees came to Jesus. They tried to make him say something wrong. They asked him, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any reason he chooses?”

Jesus answered, “Surely you have read this in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.’[a] And God said, ‘That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. And the two people will become one.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:4 Quote from Gen. 1:27; 5:2.
  2. Matthew 19:5 Quote from Gen. 2:24.

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