Matthew 19:1-6

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Teaching About Divorce

19 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from ^(A)Galilee and ^(B)entered ^(C)the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²And ^(D)large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

³And Pharisees came up to him and ^(E)tested him by asking, ^(F)“Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” ⁴He answered, ^(G)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵and said, ^(H)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and ^(I)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶So they are no longer two but one flesh. ^(J)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

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Matthew 19:1-6

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Divorce^(A)

19 When Jesus had finished saying these things,^(B) he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. ²Large crowds followed him, and he healed them^(C) there.

³Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife^(D) for any and every reason?”

⁴“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^[a]^(E) ⁵and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[b]?^(F) ⁶So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”