web - Matthew:19:1-12

web@Matthew:19:1 @ It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

web@Matthew:19:2 @ Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

web@Matthew:19:3 @ Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

web@Matthew:19:4 @ He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, {Genesis strkjv@1:27}

web@Matthew:19:5 @ and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' {Genesis strkjv@2:24}

web@Matthew:19:6 @ So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

web@Matthew:19:7 @ They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

web@Matthew:19:8 @ He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

web@Matthew:19:9 @ I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

web@Matthew:19:10 @ His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

web@Matthew:19:11 @ But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

web@Matthew:19:12 @ For 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 Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."