Mark 10:1–12

Teaching About Divorce

^1aAnd standing up, He ^*went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds ^*gathered around Him again, and, ^baccording to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

²And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to ¹divorce a wife.

³And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”

⁴And they said, “^aMoses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and ¹send her away.”

⁵But Jesus said to them, “^1aBecause of your hardness of heart he wrote for you this commandment.

⁶“But ^afrom the beginning of creation, God ^bmade them male and female.

⁷“^aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother¹,

^8aand the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁹“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹⁰And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again.

¹¹And He ^*said to them, “^aWhoever ¹divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her;

¹²and ^aif she herself ¹divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”