He said to them, “Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this. Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”[a]

10 The disciples[b] said to him, “If this is the case of a man with his[c] wife, it would be better not to marry!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:9 Some manuscripts omit “and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery”
  2. Matthew 19:10 Some manuscripts have “His disciples”
  3. Matthew 19:10 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun