Matthew 19:8

A Conservative Version

He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happened this way.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.

Mark 10:5

But having answered, Jesus said to them, For your hard heart he wrote for you this commandment.

Zechariah 7:12

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from LORD of hosts.

1 Corinthians 7:6

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

Matthew 8:31

And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of swine.

Matthew 3:15

But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk.

Psalm 95:8

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, as the day of trial in the wilderness,

Genesis 7:7

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Matthew 19:7

They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to divorce her?

Matthew 19:9

And I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife, not for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery. And he who married her who has been divorced commits adultery.

Mark 16:14

Afterward he became visible to them, to the eleven, who were relaxing. And he upbraided their unbelief and hard heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he was raised.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they became his wives, both of them.