tcent@Matthew:19:3 @ Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, »Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?«
tcent@Matthew:19:4 @ And he answered them, »Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,
tcent@Matthew:19:5 @ and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?
tcent@Matthew:19:6 @ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.«
tcent@Matthew:19:7 @ They said to him, »Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?«
tcent@Matthew:19:8 @ He said to them, »Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
tcent@Matthew:19:9 @ And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.«