King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 19:8
“He saith unto them, ‹Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 19
‹Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.›
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
He saith unto them, ‹Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.›
‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.
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