Mark 10:7
5 But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
- KJV
- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
- WEB
- For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
- ASV
- For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
- DARBY
- For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
- BLB
- ‘On account of this a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
- ÅB
- Derfor skal mannen forlate sin far og mor og holde seg til sin hustru,
- OTB
- Derfor skal en mann forlate sin far og mor og forenes med sin kone,
- B1930
- Derfor skal mannen forlate sin far og mor og holde sig til sin hustru,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Read in contextMatthew 19:5–6
and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Read in contextEphesians 5:31
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
Read in context