Matthew 19:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Pharisees came to Him and put Him to the test by asking, Is it lawful and right to dismiss and repudiate and divorce one's wife for any and every cause?

American Standard Version (1901)

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Common English Bible

Some Pharisees came to him. In order to test him, they said, “Does the Law allow a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the Pharisees approached him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to separate from his wife, no matter what the cause?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Matthew 19:3 Cross References

Matthew 16:1

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 22:35

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

Mark 10:2

And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

Mark 12:13

And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Hero´dians, to catch him in his words.

Mark 12:15

Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

John 8:6

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

1 Corinthians 7:10

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Hebrews 3:9

when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.