Matthew 19:10
His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
11Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known 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 →