Mark 10:6

But God tells us in his book that he made people and everything else. His book says, ‘He made them man and woman.’

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

In Context

5Jesus said to them, “You people have closed ears, and you will not listen to God, so Moses had to write those words for you like that.

7And he tells us, ‘A man will leave his mother and father and marry a woman. The man and his wife will join with each other, and their bodies will be like one body again.’

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Cross References

Genesis 1:27So God made people to be like himself. He made them man and woman.

Genesis 5:2And he made them men and women, and he called them human beings, and he was good to them.

2 Peter 3:4They will say, “Jesus promised to come back, but where is he? He didn’t come back. He said that powerful things will happen to this world, and he said that he will come back, and that God will finish up the world. But nothing has happened. Some of our Christian leaders have already died, but none of those things have happened. Everything just keeps going the same, just like from the time God made everything.”

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 →

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