Bible Text: August 5, 2007

Mark 10

Teaching About Divorce

 1^(A) And he left there and went^(B) to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

 2And Pharisees came up and in order^(C) to test him asked,^(D) "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4They said,^(E) "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." 5And Jesus said to them, "Because of your^(F) hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6But^(G) from the beginning of creation, 'God made them^(H) male and female.' 7^(I) 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,^[a] 8and^(J) the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9^(K) What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

 10And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11And he said to them, ^(L) "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12and^(M) if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

Footnotes:

1. Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife

Cross references:

1. Mark 10:1 : For Mark 10:1-12, Matt 19:1-9
2. Mark 10:1 : Luke 9:51; 17:11; John 10:40; Matt 4:25
3. Mark 10:2 : John 8:6
4. Mark 10:2 : Matt 5:31
5. Mark 10:4 : Deut 24:1-4
6. Mark 10:5 : Mark 16:14; Mark 3:5; 6:52; Heb 3:8
7. Mark 10:6 : Mark 13:19; 2 Pet 3:4; Rom 1:20
8. Mark 10:6 : Gen 1:27; 5:2
9. Mark 10:7 : Eph 5:31; Gen 2:24
10. Mark 10:8 : 1 Cor 6:16; Mal 2:15
11. Mark 10:9 : 1 Cor 7:10
12. Mark 10:11 : Matt 5:32
13. Mark 10:12 : 1 Cor 7:11, 13