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He said to them, “Because your hearts were hard and stubborn Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery[a].”

10 The disciples said to Jesus, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:9 Some early mss add the phrase “...and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

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