Matthew 19:6

A Conservative Version

So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate.

Cross References

Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Romans 7:2

For the woman under authority to the living husband has been bound by law, but if the husband should die, she has been released from the law of the husband.

Ephesians 5:28

So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Malachi 2:14

Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God

Malachi 2:16

For I hate putting away, says LORD, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with violence, says LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Matthew 19:5

and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh?

Matthew 19:7

They say to him, Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to divorce her?