Mark 10:2-12

New Catholic Bible

² Some Pharisees came forward and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³ He replied, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴ They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and dismiss her.” ⁵ But Jesus said to them, “It was because of the hardness of your hearts that he wrote this commandment for you. ⁶ But from the very beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ⁷ ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, ⁸ and the two become one flesh.’ And so they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

¹⁰ When they were again in the house, the disciples once more questioned Jesus about this. ¹¹ He said to them, “If a man divorces his wife and marries another, he commits adultery against her. ¹² In the same way, if a wife divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”