Matthew 19:8

English Standard Version 2016

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Mark 10:5

And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 7:6

Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.

Matthew 8:31

And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Psalm 95:8

do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Genesis 7:7

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Matthew 19:7

They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

Matthew 19:9

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

Mark 16:14

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

1 Samuel 25:43

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