Mark 10:5
3 “What did Moses command you?” He replied.
4 They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
- KJV
- And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
- WEB
- But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
- ASV
- But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
- DARBY
- And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;
- BLB
- But Jesus said to them, “For your⁺ hardness of heart he wrote you⁺ this commandment;
- ÅB
- Men Jesus sa til dem: For deres hårde hjertes skyld har han skrevet dere dette bud.
- OTB
- Jesus sa til dem, “Det var på grunn av deres harde hjerter at han skrev denne befaling til dere.
- B1930
- Men Jesus sa til dem: For eders hårde hjertes skyld har han skrevet eder dette bud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 19:8
Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.
Read in contextActs 7:51
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:16–17
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read in contextHebrews 3:7–10
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 31:27
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:6
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
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