Mark 10:2-9 ▼

2 Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, |Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?|

3 He answered them, |What did Moses command you?|

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

5 But Jesus said to them, |He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

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

9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.|