Matthew 19:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”

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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

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.

Mark 10:2

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Mark 12:13

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodi-ans, to entrap him in his talk.

Mark 12:15

Should we pay them, or should we not?” But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin, and let me look at it.”

John 8:6

This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

1 Corinthians 7:10

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.