Matthew 19:11

Good News Translation (US Version)

Jesus answered, “This teaching does not apply to everyone, but only to those to whom God has given it.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:17

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

1 Corinthians 7:35

I am saying this because I want to help you. I am not trying to put restrictions on you. Instead, I want you to do what is right and proper, and to give yourselves completely to the Lord's service without any reservation.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

Matthew 13:11

Jesus answered, “The knowledge about the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Matthew 19:10

His disciples said to him, “If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Matthew 19:12

For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so.”