Matthew 5:31 Cross References - Darby

³¹ It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a letter of divorce.

¹ When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house. ² And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man`s wife. ³ And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife; ⁴ her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

¹ They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man`s, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.

³ And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

⁷ They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a letter of divorce and to send [her] away?

² And Pharisees coming to [him] asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? (tempting him). ³ But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you? ⁴ And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce, and to put away. ⁵ And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you; ⁶ but from [the] beginning of [the] creation God made them male and female. ⁷ For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife, ⁸ and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.