Mark 10:4-6
Amplified Bible
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”(A) 5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of hearts [your callousness and insensitivity toward your wives and the [a]provision of God] he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.(B)
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- Mark 10:5 God provided for divorce under certain circumstances, but the Pharisees expanded the reasons for divorce and abused God’s provision.
Mark 10:4-6
New International Version
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(A)
5 “It was because your hearts were hard(B) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](C)
Footnotes
- Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27
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