Mark 10:2-9 ▼

2 And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

3 and he answering said to them, 'What did Moses command you?'

4 and they said, 'Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

5 And Jesus answering said to them, 'For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

6 but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

8 and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

9 what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'