Matthew 19:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ 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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Common English Bible

⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, humans must not pull apart what God has put together.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate."

Matthew 19:6 Cross References

Mark 10:9

Therefore, those whom God so joins together [in the marriage bond], no person must ever separate.”

Hebrews 13:4

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.

Romans 7:2

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.

Ephesians 5:28

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.

Matthew 19:5

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]?’

Matthew 19:7

They replied, “Why then did Moses order [a man] to provide a legal divorce decree [Deut. 24:1], and then divorce his wife?”