Matthew 19:8

Modern English Version

He said to them, “Moses, for the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah went with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives into the ark, because of the floodwaters.

Psalm 95:8

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

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts hard like a diamond so as not to hear the instruction and words that the Lord of Hosts sent by His Spirit through the former prophets, and there was great anger from the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 19:7

They said to Him, “Then why did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to send her away?”

Matthew 19:9

But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

Matthew 3:15

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

Matthew 8:31

So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”

Mark 10:5

But Jesus said to them, “Due to the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

Mark 16:14

Afterward He appeared to the eleven as they sat at supper, and He reprimanded them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

1 Corinthians 7:6

I speak this as a concession and not as a command.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. So both of them were his wives.