Any or Every?

Matthew 19:3-6 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” It's amazing how much difference one little word, or emphasis on a word, can make. Are they Pharisees asking if it is lawful before God to divorce one's wife for any reason at all, or are they asking if there is any reason at all for which God permits it? In our culture, we often confuse and interchange "any" for "every". Of course, the reason they ask is not for an answer, becuase they know whatever He says, someone will not agree, because this is such a hot topic. It can be a surefire way to get a preacher fired! Much like our culture, divorce was being accepted for any old reason at all, but back then there was one condition: if you were a man. Jesus rightly answers the question with the Word of God. That is the real issue: do we want to live by man's rules, or God's? Do we want to please ourselves or look out for others? A lax attidute about divorce is simply a symptom of a a deeper issue.