Matthew 19:10
His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
In Context
11But he said to them, Not all men can accommodate this saying, but to whom it has been given.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I want you to be without worry. The unmarried man cares for things of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 19:4-13
The Law of Divorce. 3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put… Read the whole commentary →