What can I get away with?

Matthew 19:7-9 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” The scribes and Pharisees took every opportunity possible to discredit Jesus. Once again they are trying to pit Him against the Law of Moses, as if He were contradicting him and the Old Testament. Lying beneath the surface was yet another motive: guilt. They were always looking for loopholes, trying to live for themselves, yet look squeaky clean to those around them. This was one area in which they had a poor track record. They had twisted a gracious allowance on God's part to make it a "command", as if God MADE them divorce a wife they did not want. Jesus corrects their vocabulary and their vice. The real issue is our harness of heart.