Mark 10:4-9 ▼

4 They said, “Moses allowed a man TO WRITE A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND TO SEND HER AWAY.”

5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of hearts [your callousness and insensitivity toward your wives and the provision of God] he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of creation God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.

7 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER [to establish a home with his wife],

8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so that they are no longer two, but [are united as] one flesh.

9 Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce].”