Mark 10:4-9 ▼

4 “Well, he permitted it,” they replied. “He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.”

5 But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts.

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

7 ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,

8 and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one,

9 let no one split apart what God has joined together.”