Saturday, September 4

3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus,

5that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,

6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,

7so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

8who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

3The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?'

4And He answered and said to them, 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

5and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.'

7They said to Him, 'Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?'

8He 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.

9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.'

10His disciples said to Him, 'If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.'

11But He said to them, 'All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given:

12For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.'