Matthew 19:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one’?^{[a] 6} So they are no longer two but one.^[b] What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” ⁷ They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”