Matthew 19:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He said to them, “It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 7:7

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

Psalm 95:8

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

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 19:7

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

Matthew 19:9

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Matthew 8:31

The demons begged him, “If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

Mark 10:5

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

Mark 16:14

Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table, and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

1 Corinthians 7:6

This I say by way of concession, not of command.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel; both of them became his wives.