Devine Scripture

Matthew 19:6

Matthew chapter 19 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

v.6This passage

v.7They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Mark 10:9

    What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Romans 7:2

    For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

  • Proverbs 2:17

    That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

  • Malachi 2:14

    Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

  • Ephesians 5:28

    Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  • Hebrews 13:4

    Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.