Matthew 19:6

Good News Translation

So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.

Malachi 2:14

You ask why he no longer accepts them. It is because he knows you have broken your promise to the wife you married when you were young. She was your partner, and you have broken your promise to her, although you promised before God that you would be faithful to her.

Malachi 2:16

“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel. “I hate it when one of you does such a cruel thing to his wife. Make sure that you do not break your promise to be faithful to your wife.”

Matthew 19:5

And God said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one.’

Matthew 19:7

The Pharisees asked him, “Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?”

Mark 10:9

No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”

Romans 7:2

A married woman, for example, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if he dies, then she is free from the law that bound her to him.

Ephesians 5:28

Men ought to love their wives just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself. (

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.