Mark 10:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 19:8 : 8 He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Neh 9:16-17 : 16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders, 17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
  • Deut 9:6 : 6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
  • Deut 31:27 : 27 For I have knowledge of your hard and uncontrolled hearts: even now, while I am still living, you will not be ruled by the Lord; how much less after my death?
  • Heb 3:7-9 : 7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears, 8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land, 9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years. 10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 19:3-11
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    84%

    3And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

    4And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

    5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

    6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

    7They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

    8He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.

    9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

    10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

    11But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

  • Mark 10:2-4
    3 verses
    83%

    2And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?

    3And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

    4And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

  • Mark 10:6-12
    7 verses
    75%

    6But from the first, male and female made he them.

    7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

    10And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.

    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

    12And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

  • Matt 15:3
    71%

    3And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

  • John 8:5-6
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    5Now in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do you say about it?

    6They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.

  • Matt 5:38
    69%

    38You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

  • Matt 5:27
    69%

    27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

  • Mark 8:17
    68%

    17And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?

  • Luke 20:34
    68%

    34And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;

  • Luke 5:22
    67%

    22But Jesus, who had knowledge of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts?

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    67%

    6Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?

  • Exod 10:1
    67%

    1And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them:

  • Mark 7:9
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    9And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

  • Matt 15:5-7
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    67%

    5But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

    6There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

    7You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

  • Mark 3:5
    67%

    5And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.

  • Matt 22:29
    67%

    29But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

  • Deut 24:1
    67%

    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

  • Matt 22:31
    66%

    31But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings:

  • Matt 9:4
    66%

    4And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?

  • Mark 2:27
    66%

    27And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;

  • Eph 5:31
    66%

    31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

  • Mark 7:12
    65%

    12You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

  • Mark 6:52
    65%

    52For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

  • Mark 12:24
    65%

    24Jesus said to them, Is not this the reason for your error, that you have no knowledge of the holy Writings or of the power of God?

  • Deut 10:16
    65%

    16Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

  • Matt 15:10
    65%

    10And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

  • Exod 7:13
    65%

    13But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

  • Mark 2:8
    65%

    8And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

  • Exod 9:12
    65%

    12And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.