Matthew 19:8

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“Because of your hard-hearted attitude Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but it wasn't like that in the beginning,” Jesus replied.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.

Genesis 7:7

Noah went into the ark, taking with him his wife and his sons and their wives, because of the flood.

Psalm 95:8

don't have a hard-hearted attitude, “as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert,

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: Go and stand where the roads divide, and look. Find out which are the old paths. Ask, “What's the right way?” Then follow it and you'll be content. But you refused, saying, “We won't go that way!”

Zechariah 7:12

They made their minds unreceptive, as hard as stone. They refused to listen to the law or to what the Lord Almighty told them by his Spirit through the former prophets. That's why the Lord Almighty became very angry with them.

Matthew 19:7

“Then why did Moses give the command that a man could divorce his wife by giving her a written certificate of divorce, and sending her away?” they asked.

Matthew 19:9

“I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife except on the grounds of sexual immorality and then marries another woman, commits adultery.”

Matthew 3:15

“Please do so, because it's good for us to do what God says is right,” Jesus told him. So John agreed to do it.

Matthew 8:31

The demons pleaded with him, “If you're going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Mark 10:5

Then Jesus told them, “Moses only wrote down this rule for you because of your hard-hearted attitude.

Mark 16:14

After this he appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating. He rebuked them for their lack of trust and their stubbornness, because they had not believed those who'd seen him after he had risen.

1 Corinthians 7:6

I'm telling you this not as a command, but as a concession.

1 Samuel 25:43

David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So they both were his wives.