Matthew 19:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And there came unto him Pharisees, tempting him, and saying, 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

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and tempting him asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him,

Mark 10:2

And there came unto him Pharisees, 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 Herodians, that they might catch him in talk.

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

And this they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Hebrews 3:9

Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.