Mark 10:2-12 (Gospel)
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- The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
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- And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
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- They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
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- And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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- But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
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- For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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- ‘and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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- Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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- In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.
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- So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
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- And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”