Mark 10:2-9 ▼

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.

9 Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate.|