Matthew 19:8

Jesus explains that Moses permitted divorce because of hard hearts, but it was not so from the beginning. The concession addressed human sin and never overturned God's original design.

Cross-references · 10

• Mal 2:13–14This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
• Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
• Zech 7:12Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
• Mark 10:5But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
• Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
• Gen 7:7Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.
• 1 Cor 7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
• Matt 8:31The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
• Ps 95:8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

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