Matthew 19:6

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Proverbs 2:17

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Malachi 2:16

“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”

Matthew 19:5

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

Matthew 19:7

They said to him, “Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Romans 7:2

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.