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Mark 10:5

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
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  1. Matthew 19:8Rank 1 from verse 5
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    8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

  2. Acts 7:51Rank 2 from verse 5
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    51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  3. Nehemiah 9:16–17Rank 3 from verse 5
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

    17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

  4. Hebrews 3:7–10Rank 4 from verse 5
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    7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

    10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

  5. Nehemiah 9:26Rank 5 from verse 5
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    26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

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Mark 10:5

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hardness

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Sense 1: The condition of being hard, firm, or resistant. Sense 2: Difficulty or hardship. Sense 3: Figuratively, stubbornness or insensibility of heart.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wrote

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Set down, recorded, composed, or communicated in writing; the past tense of write.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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

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