Matthew 19:10

His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

Young's Literal Translation

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

9'And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

11And he said to them, 'All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

Proverbs 19:13A calamity to his father [is] a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

Proverbs 21:19Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.

1 Corinthians 7:8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];

1 Corinthians 7:32And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry — to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging 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 →

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