5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?
6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
7They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?
8He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.
10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.
11But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
