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JANUARY 29
Incline Your ear to me, and hear my
speech.
7 Show Your marvelous lovingkindness
by Your right hand, 19:7 Why then did Moses command to give a
O You who save those who trust in You certificate of divorce…? The Pharisees mis-
From those who rise up against them. represented Deuteronomy 24:1–4. It was not a
“command” for divorce, but a limitation on
Proverbs 5:15–20 remarriage in the event of a divorce.While rec-
15 Drink water from your own cistern, ognizing the legitimacy of divorce when a man
And running water from your own “has found some uncleanness” (Deut. 24:1) in
well. his wife (sexual sin,by Jesus’interpretation in v.
16 Should your fountains be 9),Moses did not “command”divorce.
dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own, command to give a certificate of divorce, and
And not for strangers with you. to put her away?”
18 Let your fountain be blessed, 8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the
And rejoice with the wife of your hardness of your hearts, permitted you to
youth. divorce your wives, but from the beginning it
19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe, was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces
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Let her breasts satisfy you his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
at all times; marries another, commits adultery; and who-
And always be enraptured with her love. ever marries her who is divorced commits
20 For why should you, my son, be adultery.”
enraptured by an immoral woman, 10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the
And be embraced in the arms case of the man with his wife, it is better not to
of a seductress? marry.”
But He said to them, “All cannot accept
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this saying, but only those to whom it has been
given: For there are eunuchs who were born
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thus from their mother’s womb, and there are
5:15–19 Using the imagery of water, the joy of eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and
a faithful marriage is contrasted with the disas- there are eunuchs who have made themselves
ter of infidelity (vv. 9–14). “Cistern” and “well” eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He
refer to the wife from whom the husband is to who is able to accept it, let him accept it.”
draw all his satisfying refreshment,sexually and 13 Then little children were brought to Him
affectionately (v.19; see 9:17,18; Song 4:9–11).
that He might put His hands on them and
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pray, but the disciples rebuked them. But Je-
sus said, “Let the little children come to Me,
Matthew 19:1–30 and do not forbid them; for of such is the king-
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dom of heaven.” And He laid His hands on
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had fin- them and departed from there.
19 ished these sayings, that He departed 16 Now behold, one came and said to Him,
from Galilee and came to the region of Judea “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that
beyond the Jordan. And great multitudes fol- I may have eternal life?”
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lowed Him, and He healed them there. 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man But if you want to enter into life, keep the com-
to divorce his wife for just any reason?” mandments.”
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?”
you not read that He who made them at the Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You
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beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not
said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’
father and mother and be joined to his wife, and 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,
the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
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are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what 20 The young man said to Him, “All these
God has joined together, let not man separate.” things I have kept from my youth. What do I
7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses still lack?”
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