Matthew 19:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ He told them, ‘Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He said to them, Because of the hardness (stubbornness and perversity) of your hearts Moses permitted you to dismiss and repudiate and divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so [ordained].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

Common English Bible

⁸ Jesus replied, “Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because your hearts are unyielding. But it wasn’t that way from the beginning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ He said to them: "Although Moses permitted you to separate from your wives, due to the hardness of your heart, it was not that way from the beginning.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ He saith to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 19:8 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 2:24

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 7:7

So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives entered the ark because of the floodwaters.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: Stand by the roadways and look. Ask about the ancient paths, ‘Which is the way to what is good? ’ Then take it and find rest for yourselves. But they protested, ‘We won’t! ’

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Armies had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets.  Therefore intense anger came from the Lord of Armies.

Matthew 19:7

‘Why then,’ they asked him, ‘did Moses command us to give divorce papers  and to send her away? ’

Matthew 19:9

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery.’   ,

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered him, ‘Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then John allowed him to be baptised.

Matthew 8:31

‘If you drive us out,’ the demons begged him, ‘send us into the herd of pigs.’

Mark 10:5

But Jesus told them, ‘He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.

Mark 16:14

Later he appeared to the Eleven  themselves as they were reclining at the table. He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he had risen.

1 Corinthians 7:6

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

1 Samuel 25:43

David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel,  and the two of them became his wives.