Matthew 19:4

Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

In Context

3Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 2:23And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada took for himself two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

Matthew 12:3Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Matthew 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Mark 2:25Jesus replied, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

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 →

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