Matthew 19:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

One who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;

Malachi 2:14

And you say, “Why?”— Because the Lord is witness between you and the wife of your youth With whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion, your covenanted wife.

Malachi 2:16

For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, And the one who covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. You should be on guard, then, for your life, and you must not break faith.

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Matthew 19:7

They said to him, “Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss [her]?”

Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband.

Ephesians 5:28

So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the immoral and adulterers.