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Matthew 19:3
Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
Matthew 19:3 · World English Bible
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Matthew 19:3 in other translations
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
The Pharisees came, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
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In context
1 When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
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