Bible verse
Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
Matthew 19:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 19.
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.
3 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
5 and 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’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
KJV
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?
ASV
And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
ERV
And there came unto him Pharisees, tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
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