Tuesday, January 13

1My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.

2For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.

3Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.

4Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.

5Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.

6See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

2The Pharisees came and asked Him, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?' testing Him.

3And He answered and said to them, 'What did Moses command you?'

4They said, 'Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.'

5And Jesus answered and said to them, 'Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'

7'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

8and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.'

10In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter.

11So He said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.'