Matthew 19:5–10

5 and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?E,w 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

7 “Why then,” they asked him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papersa and to send her away?”

8 He told them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning. 9 I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”* b

10 His disciplesc said to him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry.”