Matthew 19:3
Good News Translation
Some Pharisees came to him and tried to trap him by asking, "Does our Law allow a man to divorce his wife for whatever reason he wishes?"

New Revised Standard Version
Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”

Contemporary English Version
Some Pharisees wanted to test Jesus. They came up to him and asked, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"

New American Bible
Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

tempting.

Matthew 16:1 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 22:16-18,35 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men. . . .

Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?

Mark 12:13,15 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians: that they should catch him in his words. . . .

Luke 11:53,54 And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things, . . .

John 8:6 And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

Hebrews 3:9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

Is it.

Matthew 5:31,32 And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. . . .

Malachi 2:14-16 And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant. . . .

Context
Teachings about Divorce
2And great multitudes followed him: and he healed them there. 3And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said:…
Cross References
Matthew 5:31
And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

Matthew 16:1
And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

John 8:6
And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

1 Corinthians 7:10
But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband.

Matthew 19:2
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