Matthew 19
Reading Matthew chapter 19 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea, beyond Jordan:
2 And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3 The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
4 And he answered and said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made [them], at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this [cause] shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. Therefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7 They say to him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for lewdness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoever marrieth her who is put away, committeth adultery.
10 His disciples say to him, If the case of the man is so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.
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