Matthew 19:2-9

2and large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

3And Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

4He replied, “Have you never read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

5and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined inseparably to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

7The Pharisees said to Him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

8He said to them, “Because your hearts were hard and stubborn Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

9I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”