Matthew 19:8

New International Reader's Version

Jesus replied, “Moses let you divorce your wives because you were stubborn. But it was not this way from the beginning.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. The two of them become one.

Genesis 7:7

He and his sons entered the ark. His wife and his sons’ wives went with them. They entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Psalm 95:8

He says, “Don’t be stubborn as you were at Meribah. Don’t be stubborn as you were that day at Massah in the desert.

Jeremiah 6:16

The Lord tells the people of Judah, “Stand where the roads cross, and look around. Ask where the old paths are. Ask for the good path, and walk on it. Then your hearts will find rest in me. But you said, ‘We won’t walk on it.’

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts as hard as the hardest stone. They wouldn’t listen to the law. They wouldn’t pay attention to the Lord’s messages. So the Lord who rules over all was very angry. After all, his Spirit had spoken to his people through the earlier prophets.

Matthew 19:7

They asked, “Then why did Moses command that a man can give his wife a letter of divorce and send her away?”

Matthew 19:9

Here is what I tell you. Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery. A man may divorce his wife only if she has not been faithful to him.”

Matthew 3:15

Jesus replied, “Let it be this way for now. It is right for us to do this. It carries out God’s holy plan.” Then John agreed.

Matthew 8:31

The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Mark 10:5

“You were stubborn. That’s why Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied.

Mark 16:14

Later Jesus appeared to the 11 disciples as they were eating. He spoke firmly to them because they had no faith. They would not believe those who had seen him after he rose from the dead.

1 Corinthians 7:6

I say those things to you as my advice, not as a command.

1 Samuel 25:43

David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel. Both of them became his wives.