Matthew 19:1-6 ▼

1 And it came to pass when Jesus finished these words that He withdrew from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

2 And many crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

3 And Pharisees came to Him, testing Him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to send away his wife for any cause?”

4 And answering, He said, “Did you? not read that the One having created from the beginning ‘made them male and female,’

5 and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God yoked together, let man not separate.”