The Sanctity of a Husband and Wife

“Sanctity” :A holiness of life and character: godliness

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 10)

1 Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them. 2 Some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce a wife.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 10)

3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses permitted a man TO WRITE A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY.” 5 But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 10)

6 “But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE. 7 “FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, 8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 10)

9 “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 10)

10 In the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. 11 And He *said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; 12 and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 2)

23 The man said,“This is now bone of my bones,And flesh of my flesh;She shall be called Woman,Because she was taken out of Man.” 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 6)

17 For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her. 18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (Chapter 19)

9 “And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”