4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who madethem at the beginning Gen. 1:27; 5:2; (Mal. 2:15)‘made them male and female,’5 and said, Gen. 2:24; Mark 10:5–9; Eph. 5:31‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and (1 Cor. 6:16; 7:2)the two shall become one flesh’?6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the Heb. 3:15hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your Mal. 2:16wives, but from the beginning it was not so.9 (Matt. 5:32); Mark 10:11; Luke 16:18; 1 Cor. 7:10And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."