Mark 10:1-8 ▼

1 Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

2 Some Pharisees came to test him. They asked, |Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?|

3 |What did Moses command you?| he responded.

4 They said, |Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.|

5 But Jesus told them, |It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you.

6 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'

7 That's why 'a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

8 and the two will become one flesh.' So they're no longer two, but one flesh.