Matthew 19:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) So, [upon becoming husband and wife] they no longer function [entirely] as two persons, but [as] one body. Therefore, those whom God [so] joins together [in the marriage bond], no person must [ever] separate.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate). 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. Common English Bible So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, humans must not pull apart what God has put together.” Catholic Public Domain Version And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. |
He said [Gen. 2:24], ‘For this reason [i.e., since He made one woman for one man], a man will leave [the home of] his father and mother and will cling to his wife, [so that] the two of them will [then] become one flesh [i.e., united in such a close relationship as to constitute one body]?’
They replied, “Why then did Moses order [a man] to provide a legal divorce decree [Deut. 24:1], and then divorce his wife?”
Therefore, those whom God so joins together [in the marriage bond], no person must ever separate.”
For a married woman is legally bound to her husband for as long as he lives. But, when he dies, she is released from the marriage contract.
In the same way also, husbands should love their own wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his own wife [actually] loves himself.
Marriage should be considered honorable among all people and its sexual responsibilities should be faithfully kept. For God will judge [and condemn] those people who are sexually immoral and who are sexually unfaithful to their mates.