Matthew 19:8

Amplified Bible

He said to them, “Because your hearts were hard and stubborn Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. [Matt 19:5; 1 Cor 6:16; Eph 5:31-33]

Genesis 7:7

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters. [Matt 24:38; Luke 17:27]

Psalm 95:8

Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife], And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness, [Ex 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13; Deut 6:16]

Jeremiah 6:16

¶Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the roads and look; ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is; then walk in it, And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’ [Matt 11:29]

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts [hard] like flint, so that they could not hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 19:7

The Pharisees said to Him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?” [Deut 24:1-4]

Matthew 19:9

I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus replied to him, “Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John permitted [it and baptized] Him.

Matthew 8:31

The demons began begging Him, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Mark 10:5

But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of hearts [your callousness and insensitivity toward your wives and the provision of God] he wrote you this precept.

Mark 16:14

Later, Jesus appeared to the eleven [disciples] themselves as they were reclining at the table; and He called them to account for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen Him after He had risen [from death].

1 Corinthians 7:6

But I am saying this as a concession, not as a command.

1 Samuel 25:43

David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.