Matthew 19:3-6

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”

4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^[a]

5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[b] ?

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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Cross References 3

1. Matthew 5:31
2. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2
3. Genesis 2:24; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31

Footnotes 2

[a]. Gen. 1:27
[b]. Gen. 2:24

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