Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
In Context
5To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept.
7For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother; and shall cleave to his wife.
Cross References
Genesis 1:27And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:2He created them male and female; and blessed them: and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Malachi 2:14And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.
2 Peter 3:4Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:2-13
The Doctrine of Divorce. 1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of… Read the whole commentary →