Matthew 19:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath [a]coupled together.
7 [b]They said to him, Why did then (A) Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He said unto them, Moses, [c]because of the hardness of your heart, [d]suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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- Matthew 19:6 Hath made them yoke fellows, as the marriage itself is by a borrowed kind of speech called a yoke.
- Matthew 19:7 Because political Laws are constrained to bear with some things, it followeth not by and by that God alloweth them.
- Matthew 19:8 Being occasioned by reason of the hardness of your hearts.
- Matthew 19:8 By a political law, not by the moral law: for this law is a perpetual law of God’s justice, the other boweth and bendeth as the carpenter’s Bevel.
Matthew 19:6-8
New International Version
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”(A)
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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