“He said to them,“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.”
Matthew 19:8 (WEB)
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6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.” 7They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?” 8He said to them,“Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so. 9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.” 10His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”