^{1 Ref} It happened when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

^{2 Ref} Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

^{3 Ref} Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"

^{4 Ref} He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

^{5 Ref} and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

^{6 Ref} So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

^{7 Ref} They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

^{8 Ref} He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

^{9 Ref} I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."