18 The man replied, My friends, I do no wrong to you. Did we not have a fast agreement when you went to work? have I not paid in full?
19 What is it unto you if I should pay these men a smaller or a larger sum? Take that which is your own and go your way, for I will give unto the twelve what I will give unto the three, the five, the seven.
20 They did their best and you could do no more than do your best.
21 The hire of man is based upon the intent of the heart.
22 As Jesus taught, a Pharisee came up and said, Lord, is it lawful for a man to put away his wife?
23 And Jesus said, You ought to know; what says the law?
24 The Pharisee replied, The law provides that man may be divorced, may put away his wife.
25 And Jesus said, The hardness of the hearts of men induced the giver of the law to make provisions such as these; but from the first it was not so.
26 God made a woman for a man, and they were one; and afterwards he said, A man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife; they are no more divided; they are one, one flesh.
27 What God has joined no man can part.