Matthew 19:10
Then sayd his disciples to him, If the matter be so betweene man and wife, it is not good to marry.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 sayd vnto them, All men cannot receiue this thing, saue they to whom it is giuen.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.
1 Corinthians 7:32And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.
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 →