Matthew 19:6

So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate.”

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

In Context

5and said — ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife shall become one’?

7“Why, then,” they said, “did Moses direct that a man should ‘serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her’?”

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Cross References

Mark 10:9What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate.”

1 Corinthians 7:10To those who are married my direction is — yet it is not mine, but the Master’s — that a woman is not to leave her husband

Hebrews 13:4Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

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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