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The Pharisees also came vnto him, tempting him, and saying vnto him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife for euery cause?

And hee answered, and said vnto them, Haue ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female?

And said, For this cause shall a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife: and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.

They say vnto him, Why did Moses then command to giue a writing of diuorcement, and to put her away?

Hee saith vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnesse of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.

And I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away, doth commit adultery.

His disciples say vnto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marrie.

But hee said vnto them, All men cannot receiue this saying, saue they to whom it is giuen.

For there are some Eunuches, which were so borne from their mothers wombe: and there are some Eunuches, which were made Eunuches of men: and there be Eunuches, which haue made themselues Eunuches for the kingdome of heauens sake. He that is able to receiue it, let him receiue it.