Matthew 19:3-9

Murdock(i) 3 And Pharisees came to him, and tempted him and said: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning, made them a male and a female? 5 And he said: For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh. 6 Wherefore they were not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath united, let not man sunder. 7 They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put her away? 8 He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to divorce your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, That whoever leaveth his wife not being an adulteress, and taketh another, committeth adultery. And whoever taketh her that is divorced, committeth adultery.