Matthew 19:6

American Standard Version (1901)

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
  • Mark 10:9 : 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-14 : 10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband 11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife. 12 But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. 13 And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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  • Mark 10:5-12
    8 verses
    93%

    5But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

    6But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

    8and the two shall become one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    10And in the house the disciples asked him again of this matter.

    11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:

    12and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.

  • Matt 19:3-5
    3 verses
    91%

    3And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful [for a man] to put away his wife for every cause?

    4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

  • Eph 5:28-32
    5 verses
    85%

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

    29for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

    30because we are members of his body.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.

  • Gen 2:23-25
    3 verses
    84%

    23And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

    25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Matt 19:7-10
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    82%

    7They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put [her] away?

    8He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

    9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

    10The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

    17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    77%

    31It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

    32but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

  • Luke 16:18
    77%

    18Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

  • Deut 24:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .

  • 1 Cor 7:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • Luke 20:34-35
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    73%

    34And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

    35but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    72%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Mal 2:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

    16For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Matt 22:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

    31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

  • Heb 13:4
    71%

    4[ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • Job 41:17
    71%

    17They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered.

  • Gen 2:18
    70%

    18And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • Rom 7:3
    70%

    3So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • Mark 12:25
    69%

    25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.

  • Mark 12:23
    69%

    23In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.