Matthew 19:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

and He said, 'For this reason 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? [Gen. 1:27; 2:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Common English Bible

And God said, ‘Because of this a man should leave his father and mother and be joined together with his wife, and the two will be one flesh.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

"For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

Matthew 19:5 Cross References

Matthew 19:6

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

Romans 12:9

[Let] love [be] without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body [with her]? For "the two,"He says, "shall become one flesh."

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each [man] have his own wife, and let each [woman] have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband [does]. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife [does].

Ephesians 5:31

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."