World English Bible
Matthew 19:3
“Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
Verse in context — Matthew 19
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It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
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Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?
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He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
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