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Matthew 19:3

“Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?””

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¹When Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

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

³Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

⁴Jesus 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 be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

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