Matthew 19:8
Jesus answered, "It was because of your hardness of heart that Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but it was not this way from the beginning.
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Matthew 19:7
"Why then," they asked, "did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"

Matthew 19:9
Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

Mark 10:5
But Jesus told them, "Moses wrote this commandment for you because your hearts were hard.

Mark 16:14
Later as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

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because.

Psalm 95:8
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Zechariah 7:12
They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 2:13, 14
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands. . . .

Mark 10:5
But Jesus told them, "Moses wrote this commandment for you because your hearts were hard.

suffered.

Matthew 3:15
"Let it be so now, " Jesus replied. "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way." Then John permitted Him.

Matthew 8:31
So the demons begged Jesus, "If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."

1 Corinthians 7:6
I say this as a concession, not as a command.

but.

Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 7:7
And Noah entered the ark, along with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, to escape the waters of the flood.

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: Where is the good way? Then walk in it and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it!'

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