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He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity,[a] and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery.”[b][c]

10 The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:9 Other ancient authorities, after unchastity, read makes her commit adultery
  2. Matthew 19:9 Other ancient authorities omit and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery
  3. 19.9 This appears to refer to the case in Mt 5.32, though the Greek word for “except” is different.

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