Matthew 19:10
The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.
Revised Version 1895
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 unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, but 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 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 abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:32But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that 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 →