Matthew 19:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

Genesis 7:7

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

Psalm 95:8

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Zechariah 7:12

And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

Matthew 19:7

They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

Matthew 19:9

And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Matthew 8:31

And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.

Mark 10:5

But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

Mark 16:14

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

1 Corinthians 7:6

But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:43

And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.