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Marriage, Divorce, and Children

Matthew 19:1-15

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Chapter 19
1 And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2 And great crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3 And the Pharisees approached him, testing him and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?" 4 But he answered, "Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female?" 5 and he said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. So what God has yoked together, let man not separate. 7 They say to him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to dismiss her?" 8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so." 9 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, not for sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries the divorced woman commits adultery. 10 The disciples say to him, "If the case of the man with the woman is thus, it is not advantageous to marry." 11 But he said to them, "Not all receive this word, but it has been given to those to whom it has been given." 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were castrated by men, and there are eunuchs who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to receive it, let him receive it. 13 Then children were brought to him so that he might lay hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said, "Let the children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." 15 And having laid hands on them, he departed from there.