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Jesus answered, “Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because you refused to accept God’s teaching. But divorce was not allowed in the beginning. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery.[a] The only reason for a man to divorce and marry again is if his first wife has been unfaithful to him.”

10 The followers said to him, “If that is the only reason a man can divorce his wife, then it is better not to marry.”

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Footnotes

  1. 19:9 adultery Some Greek copies continue, “And anyone who marries a divorced woman is guilty of adultery,” Compare Matthew 5:32.

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