Matthew 19:10
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
King James Version
In Context
11But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which 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 →