Mark 10:1-9 ▼

1 He set out from there and went into the district of Judea [and] across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them.

2 The Pharisees approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing him.

3 He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”

4 They replied, “Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.”

5 But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment.

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

7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife],

8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”