They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us[a] to give a document—a certificate of divorce—and to divorce her?” He said to them, “Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this. Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Matthew 19:9 Some manuscripts omit “and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery”