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Matthew - ch 19 v 1 - 20
- And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan,
- and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
- And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'
- And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,
- and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?
- so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'
- They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'
- He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.
- `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
- His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'
- And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;
- for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive `it' -- let him receive.'
- Then were brought near to him children that he might put hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them.
- But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'
- and having laid on them `his' hands, he departed thence.
- And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'
- And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one `is' good except One -- God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'
- He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,
- honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'
- The young man saith to him, `All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?'
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