Mark 10:4-9 ▼

4 They replied, “Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.”

5 But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment.

6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.

7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife],

8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”