Matthew 19:1–9

Teaching About Divorce

19 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from nGalilee and oentered pthe region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 And qlarge crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And Pharisees came up to him and rtested him by asking, s“Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, t“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, u‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and vthe two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. wWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to him, x“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your yhardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 zAnd I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”1

n	Mt 17:24
o	Mt 19:1–9 Mk 10:1–12
p	Lk 9:51 Lk 17:11 Jn 10:40 Mt 4:25
q	Mt 12:15
r	Jn 8:6
s	Mt 5:31
t	Ge 1:27 Ge 2:18 Ge 2:21–23 Ge 5:2 Mt 21:16
u	Eph 5:31 Ge 2:24
v	1 Co 6:16 Mal 2:15
w	1 Co 7:10
x	Dt 24:1–4
y	Mk 16:14 Mk 3:5 Mk 6:52 Heb 3:8
z	Mt 5:32
1	Some manuscripts add and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery; other manuscripts except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery