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| | Jesus answered them, saying "He wrote you this law because men's hearts are hardened. But from the beginning of time, God has made man, male and female. For this reason, men leave their parents and cling to a wife, and the two shall be one flesh, so that they are no longer two people, but one. What God has joined together, let no man tear apart." | | Jesus answered them, saying "He wrote you this law because men's hearts are hardened. But from the beginning of time, God has made man, male and female. For this reason, men leave their parents and cling to a wife, and the two shall be one flesh, so that they are no longer two people, but one. What God has joined together, let no man tear apart." |
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| − | |<span id="10:10"></span>And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
| + | In his house, later, His students asked the same question again. He said to them, "Any man who divorces his wife and marries another has committed adultery. And if a woman divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery." |
| − | |In his house, later, His students asked the same question again.
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| − | |The Pharisees asked Jesus this question to trick him; His students asked Him out of curiosity.
| + | Young children were brought to Jesus, that He might teach them. His students scolded those who brought the children, but when Jesus saw what His students were doing, He was very unhappy, and told them, "Do not forbid the children to come to me. Allow them there, for they are so like the kingdom of God. Truly I say to you, who ever does not receive the kingdom of God the way a child does, he shall not enter into it." Jesus took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. |
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| − | |<span id="10:11"></span>And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
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| − | |<span id="10:12"></span>And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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| − | |<span id="10:13"></span>And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
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| − | |<span id="10:14"></span>But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
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| − | |<span id="10:15"></span>Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
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| − | |<span id="10:16"></span>And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
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| | |<span id="10:17"></span>And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? | | |<span id="10:17"></span>And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? |
| | |As he was leaving, a man came running up to him, and kneeled before him, asking, "Good Teacher, what must I do that I may have eternal life?" | | |As he was leaving, a man came running up to him, and kneeled before him, asking, "Good Teacher, what must I do that I may have eternal life?" |