Matthew 19:10
His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”
World English Bible
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
11But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know 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 →