Matthew 19:7

Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

Malachi 2:16

“For I hate divorce, says the Lord the God of Israel, and covering one's garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.”

Matthew 1:19

and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Matthew 19:8

He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:31

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Mark 10:4

They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”