Mark 10:2-12
New Century Version
2 Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, “Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 Jesus answered, “What did Moses command you to do?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write out divorce papers and send her away.”[a]
5 Jesus said, “Moses wrote that command for you because you were stubborn. 6 But when God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.’[b] 7 ‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,[c] 8 and the two will become one body.’[d] So there are not two, but one. 9 God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them.”
10 Later, in the house, his followers asked Jesus again about the question of divorce. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery against her. 12 And the woman who divorces her husband and marries another man is also guilty of adultery.”
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- 10:4 “Moses . . . away.” Quotation from Deuteronomy 24:1.
- 10:6 ‘he made . . . female’ Quotation from Genesis 1:27.
- 10:7 and . . . wife Some Greek copies do not have this phrase.
- 10:7–8 ‘So . . . body.’ Quotation from Genesis 2:24.
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