Matthew 19:5
World English Bible
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?’
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Matthew 19:5 in other translations
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?
Matthew 19:5 in context
- 3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
- 4He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
- 5and 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?’
- 6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”
- 7They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”