Mark 10:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 2:24 : 24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
  • Eph 5:31 : 31 For 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.
  • Matt 19:5-6 : 5 For 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? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

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    28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

    29 For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

    30 Because we are parts of his body.

    31 For 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.

    32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

  • Gen 2:22-25
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    22 And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

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

    24 For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

    25 And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.

  • Matt 19:4-10
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    4 And 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,

    5 For 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?

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

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

    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.

    9 And 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.

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

  • Mark 10:8-12
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    8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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

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

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

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

  • Mark 10:6
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    6 But from the first, male and female made he them.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    10 But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

    11 (Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
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    1 Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

    2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3 Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4 The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    1 If 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.

    2 And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31 Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32 But 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.

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    29 Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

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    27 If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

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    16 Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

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    13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18 And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

  • Mal 2:15
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    15 ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

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    29 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

  • Matt 22:25
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    25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • 1 Cor 11:8-9
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    8 For the man did not come from the woman, but the woman from the man.

    9 And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

  • Eph 5:25
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    25 Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;

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    33 But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.

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    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

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    11 But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.