Mark 10:2-9

2Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?”

3Jesus answered them with a question: “What did Moses say in the law about divorce?”

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

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

6But ‘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,

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

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