Matthew 19:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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?

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  • 1 Cor 6:16 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Gen 2:21-24 : 21 And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place: 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.
  • 1 Kgs 11:2 : 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
  • Ps 45:10 : 10 O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
  • Ps 63:8 : 8 My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
  • Mark 10:5-9 : 5 But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law. 6 But from the first, male and female made he them. 7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; 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.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.
  • Gen 34:3 : 3 Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
  • Deut 4:4 : 4 But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.
  • Deut 10:20 : 20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
  • Deut 11:22 : 22 For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:
  • 1 Sam 18:1 : 1 Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.
  • 2 Sam 1:26 : 26 I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:4 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eph 5:28-33
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    94%

    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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    93%

    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.

  • Mark 10:5-12
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    91%

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

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

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

    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.

  • Matt 19:6-10
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    91%

    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.

  • Matt 19:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

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

    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,

  • 1 Cor 6:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    17 But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    75%

    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.

  • Gen 2:18
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    73%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    73%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    72%

    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.

  • Gen 5:2
    72%

    2 Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

  • Luke 16:18
    72%

    18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

  • Luke 20:34
    71%

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

  • Eph 5:25
    71%

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

  • Luke 18:29
    71%

    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,

  • Prov 5:18
    70%

    18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    5 Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

  • Eph 5:22
    69%

    22 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    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;

  • Gen 1:27
    69%

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

  • Matt 19:29
    69%

    29 And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

  • Matt 5:27
    69%

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

  • Matt 19:19
    69%

    19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.