Matthew 19:11

Then he said to them, All men are not capable of receiving this saying, but they to whom it is given.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

In Context

10His disciples said unto him, If the case of a man with his wife be thus, it is not expedient to marry.

12For there are eunuchs, who were so from their mothers’ womb; and there are eunuchs, who have been made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that is capable of receiving, let him receive it.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:11And he answered and said unto them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

1 Corinthians 7:7For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that.

1 Corinthians 7:35Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.

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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