Mat 19:8-9 | ESV | STEP | He said to them , Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives , but from the beginning it was not so .

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

Matthew 19:8-9

8 He said to them, “Because of your ^ahardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 ^bAnd I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery; other manuscripts except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery}