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Reading: Matt 19:3-8 (NLT) Gen 2:18, 3: 8-13 (NLT) 1 Tim: 3:1-7, 11-13 (MSG ) Matt 19:3-8 (NLT) 19 3 Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’[a]” 5 And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’[b] 6 Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.” 7 “Then why did Moses say in the law that a man could give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away?”[c] they asked. 8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended. Gen 2:18 (NLT) 2 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper...