Matthew 19:5
3 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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’?
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
- ASV
- and 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?
- DARBY
- and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?
- BLB
- and He said, ‘On account of this a man will leave the father and the mother and be joined with his wife, and the two will be for one flesh’?
- ÅB
- og sa: ‘Derfor skal mannen forlate far og mor og holde seg til sin kone, og de to skal være ett kjøtt’?
- OTB
- og sa: ‘Derfor skal en mann forlate sin far og mor og være forent med sin kone, og de to skal bli ett kjød’?
- B1930
- og sa: Derfor skal mannen forlate far og mor og holde sig til sin hustru, og de to skal være ett kjød?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 2:21–24
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Read in context1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Read in context1 Corinthians 7:2
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
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 contextMark 10:5–9
But Jesus told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:16
Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
Read in contextPsalms 63:8
My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
Read in context1 Samuel 18:1
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
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