He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，所以准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣说：“因为摩西知道你们铁石心肠，所以才准你们休妻。但起初并不是这样。

他说：“摩西因为你们的心硬，才准许你们休妻，但起初并不是这样。

耶稣对他们说：“摩西因着你们的心里刚硬，才准许你们休妻，但并不是从起初就这样的。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「摩西因為你們的心硬，所以准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌說：「因為摩西知道你們鐵石心腸，所以才准你們休妻。但起初並不是這樣。

他說：“摩西因為你們的心硬，才准許你們休妻，但起初並不是這樣。

耶穌對他們說：『是為着你們的硬心、摩西才准許離婚的；從起初卻不是這樣。

耶穌對他們說：「摩西因著你們的心裡剛硬，才准許你們休妻，但並不是從起初就這樣的。

曰、摩西以爾心頑、許爾出妻、但元始不然、

曰、摩西以爾心忍、容爾出妻、但元始不然、

曰、摩西因爾心忍、容爾出妻、但元始則不然、

對曰：『摩西以汝心如鐵石、姑容出妻、非自始已然。

Jesus replied,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

Jesus replied,“ Moses let you divorce your wives because you were stubborn. But it was not this way from the beginning.

He said to them,“ Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Jesus replied,“ Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended.

He told them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not like that from the beginning.

He* said to them,“ Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

He said to them,“ Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

He told them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts. But it was not like that from the beginning.

Jesus said to them,“ Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

He said to them,“ Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth[ it] with good will at your hand.Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet[ is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where[ is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk[ therein].

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer[ it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation,[ and] as[ in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Yea, they made their hearts[ as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

But I speak this by permission,[ and] not of commandment.