Matthew 19:10
His disciples said to him, “If such is the case for a man with a wife, then it is not expedient to marry.”
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the grief of his father. And an argumentative wife is like a roof that is continually leaking.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to live in a deserted land, than with a quarrelsome and emotional woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them, if they would remain as they are, just as I also am.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.
1 Timothy 4:3prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood 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 →