mnt - Matthew:19:3-9

mnt@Matthew:19:3 @ Presently some of the Pharisees came up to him, and made test of him by asking, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?"

mnt@Matthew:19:4 @ "Have you not read." he answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said,

mnt@Matthew:19:5 @ "For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh?

mnt@Matthew:19:6 @ "Thus they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

mnt@Matthew:19:7 @ They answered, "Why then did Moses command the husband to give her a written bill of divorce, and so to put her away?"

mnt@Matthew:19:8 @ "Moses," said Jesus, "permitted you to divorce your wives on account of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.

mnt@Matthew:19:9 @ "And I tell you that any man who divorces his wife for any cause except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."