Matthew 19:2-9

2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

4He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

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

7They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

8Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

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