Matthew 19:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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King 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.

Matthew 19:6 Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant,

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Matthew 19:7

They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is discharged from the law concerning the husband.

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.