Bible verse

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

Matthew 19:6 · BSB

Matthew 19:6 in context

The verses around it, from Matthew 19.

2 Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.

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,’

5 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?”

8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart; but it was not this way from the beginning.

9 Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery.”

10 His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

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Matthew 19:6 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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