Matthew 19:1

Matthew 19:1-12

¹And it happened when Jesus had finished these words that he departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²And many crowds followed him, and he healed them there. ³And Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” ⁴But he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” ⁷They say to him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to divorce her?” ⁸He says to them, “Moses, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. ⁹And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” ¹⁰The disciples say to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” ¹¹But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. ¹²For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it.”

Mark 10:1-12

¹And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them. ²And they were asking him whether it is lawful for a man to divorce his wife, testing him. ³But he answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴And they said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.” ⁵But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶But from the beginning of creation, ‘male and female he made them.’ ⁷‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, ⁸and the two will become one flesh’; so they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹So what God has joined together, let man not separate.” ¹⁰And in the house the disciples were asking him again about this. ¹¹And he says to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; ¹²and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”