The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for all kinds of reasons?" He answered, "Have you not read how he who made them in the beginning made them man and woman?" And said, "For this reason a man will leave father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will be one flesh. So now they are not two, but one flesh. Let no man, therefore, put asunder that which God has coupled together."
They said to him, "Why did Moses then command to give a certificate of divorce, and to divorce her?" He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning, it was not so. So, I say to you, Whoever divorces his wife (unless it is because of adultery) and then marries another, breaks wedlock. And whoever marries she who is divorced does also commit adultery." Then his disciples say to him, "If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is not good to marry." He said to them, "All men cannot receive this saying, except those to whom it is given."
Matthew 19:3-11 from the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21 Version more here.
(bolding here for emphasis only)
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