Teaching About Divorce
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z And he left there and went a to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
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And Pharisees came up and in order b to test him asked, c "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
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He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
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They said, d "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."
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And Jesus said to them, "Because of your e hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
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But f from the beginning of creation, 'God made them g male and female.'
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h 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
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and i the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
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j What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
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And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
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And he said to them, k "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
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and l if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
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Mark 10:1 - 12
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
Matthew 19:1 - 9
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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Luke 9:51
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
Luke 17:11
On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.
John 10:40
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
Matthew 4:25
And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
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Mark 10:1 - 12
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
Matthew 19:1 - 9
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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John 8:6
This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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Matthew 5:31
"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
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Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4
When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
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Mark 16:14
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Mark 3:5
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
Mark 6:52
For they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
Hebrews 3:8
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness.
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Mark 13:19
For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.
2 Peter 3:4
They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.
Romans 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
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Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:2
Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
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Ephesians 5:31
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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1 Corinthians 6:16
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh.
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
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1 Corinthians 7:10
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
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Matthew 5:32
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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1 Corinthians 7:11
(but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:13
If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
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