Matthew 19:6

New American Standard Bible 2020

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

Who leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your marriage companion and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

“For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

Matthew 19:5

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

Matthew 19:7

They *said to Him, “Why, then, did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

Mark 10:9

Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

Romans 7:2

For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.