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Mark 10:1-12

Teaching About Divorce

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

2 And Pharisees came up and in order ^cto test him asked ^d“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said ^e“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^fhardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But ^gfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^hmale and female.’ 7 ⁱ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife ^{▼

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Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife} 8 and ^kthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 ^lWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

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