He said unto them, Moses, [a]because of the hardness of your heart, [b]suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

I say therefore unto you, (A)that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be [c]for whoredom, and marry another, commiteth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her which is divorced, doth commit adultery.

10 Then said his disciples to him, If the [d]matter be so between man and wife, it is not good to marry.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:8 Being occasioned by reason of the hardness of your hearts.
  2. Matthew 19:8 By a political law, not by the moral law: for this law is a perpetual law of God’s justice, the other boweth and bendeth as the carpenter’s Bevel.
  3. Matthew 19:9 Therefore in these days the Laws that were made against adulterers were not regarded: for they should have needed no divorcement, if marriage had been cut asunder with punishment by death.
  4. Matthew 19:10 If the matter stands so between man and wife, or in marriage.

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