⁸ He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to ^[a]divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

¹⁸ “^(A)Everyone who ^[a]divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is ^[b]divorced from a husband commits adultery.

^4 (A)Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; ^(B)for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.