Matthew 19:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing [Him], they asked Him to show them a sign out of heaven.

Matthew 22:35

Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

Mark 10:2

And some Pharisees approached and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a husband to put away his wife?"testing Him.

Mark 12:13

Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, in order that they might catch Him in [His ]discourse.

Mark 12:15

Should we give, or should we not give?"But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test Me? Bring Me a denarius, that I may see it."

John 8:6

But this they said, testing Him, that they might have an accusation against Him. But Jesus, stooping down, began to write on the ground with His finger, not taking notice.

1 Corinthians 7:10

Now to those who have married I command, yet not I, but the Lord: A wife is not to be separated from her husband-

Hebrews 3:9

Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.