Matthew 19:1–9

¹And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, ²and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

³And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?’ ⁴And he answering said to them, ‘Did ye not read, that He who made them, from the beginning a male and a female made them, ⁵and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be—the two—for one flesh? ⁶so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.’ ⁷They say to him, ‘Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?’ ⁸He saith to them—‘Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

⁹‘And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.’