Matthew 19:8 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁸ Jesus replied, ‘Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way 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

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 7:7

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

Psalm 95:8

‘Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Jeremiah 6:16

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

Zechariah 7:12

They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.

Matthew 19:7

‘Why then,’ they asked, ‘did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?’

Matthew 19:9

I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.’

Matthew 3:15

Jesus replied, ‘Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then John consented.

Matthew 8:31

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

Mark 10:5

‘It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,’ Jesus replied.

Mark 16:14

Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

1 Corinthians 7:6

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

1 Samuel 25:43

David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.