Mark 10:1–12

Teaching About Divorce

10^zAnd he left there and went ^ato the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

²And Pharisees came up and in order ^bto test him asked, ^c“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴They said, ^d“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” ⁵And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^ehardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶But ^ffrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^gmale and female.’ ^7h‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^{1 8}and ⁱthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^9jWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

¹⁰And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹And he said to them, ^k“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, ¹²and ^lif she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”