He answered them, "It was because of your moral perversity that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but it was not so from the beginning.

But Jesus said to them, "It was due to your moral perversity that Moses wrote that command in your law.

because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

To say no more, it is a mark of moral failure among you to have lawsuits at all with one another. Why not rather suffer being wronged? Why not suffer being robbed?

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,