Marriage is a lifetime commitment

¹Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River. ²Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

³Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?” ⁴He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female, ⁵and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ⁶So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” ⁷They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?” ⁸Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way. ⁹Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.” ¹⁰The disciples said to him, “If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!” ¹¹He said to them, “Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given. ¹²For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it.”