Where Does the Bible Teach about what God joins let no man put asunder?
Jesus gave this answer to the religious leaders {they were also lawyers like Paul before he was converted} when they quizzed him on how Moses allowed for divorce. This teaching of Jesus was recorded by the Apostle Matthew in Matthew 19:6 and by Mark in Mark 10:9, “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate”. {This is the rendring of the New King James Version which with different words means the same.} Just like today, the leaders had develolped many reasons and justifications for divorce other than the single cause of fornication allowed by Jesus. {Matthew 19:9 and Matthew 5:32}. They used the law of Moses, that is the first 5 books of the Bible, to justify themselves. However, Jesus corrected them and clarified the original intention of God in the writing of Deuteronomy and all other books of the Bible. Moses, Jesus said, allowed that because of the hardness of hearts of the husband and wife that desired divorce; and when we look for the opposite of that hardness to