Matthew 19:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He said to them, “For 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 leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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.

Psalm 95:8

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

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.’

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts like adamant lest they should hear the law and the words which 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 one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

Matthew 19:9

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

Matthew 3:15

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

Matthew 8:31

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

Mark 10:5

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

Mark 16:14

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

1 Corinthians 7:6

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

1 Samuel 25:43

David also took Ahino-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.