Mar 10:5-9 | ESV | STEP | And Jesus said to them , Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment .

a ch. 16:14; [ch. 3:5; 6:52; Heb. 3:8]

b ch. 13:19; 2 Pet. 3:4; [Rom. 1:20]

cCited from Gen. 1:27; 5:2

d Eph. 5:31; Cited from Gen. 2:24

f 1 Cor. 6:16; [Mal. 2:15]

g 1 Cor. 7:10

Mark 10:5-9

5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^ahardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But ^bfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^cmale and female.’ 7 ^d‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife} 8 and ^fthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 ^gWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”