Mark 10:1–12

¹And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. ²And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, ³and he answering said to them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ ⁴and they said, ‘Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.’ ⁵And Jesus answering said to them, ‘For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command, ⁶but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; ⁷on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, ⁸and they shall be—the two—for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh; ⁹what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.’ ¹⁰And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him, ¹¹and he saith to them, ‘Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; ¹²and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.’