Mark 10:2-9

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

² And some Pharisees came up, and, in order to test Him and try to find a weakness in Him, asked, Is it lawful for a man to ^[a]dismiss and repudiate and divorce his wife?

³ He answered them, What did Moses command you?

⁴ They replied, Moses allowed a man to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.^(A)

⁵ But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [^[b]your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this ^[c]precept in your Law.

⁶ But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.^(B)

⁷ For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother ^[d]and be ^[e]joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently,

⁸ And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.^(C)

⁹ What therefore God has united (joined together), let not man separate or divide.