Matthew 19:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then sayd his disciples to him, If the matter be so betweene man and wife, it is not good to marry.

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  • Gen 2:18 : 18 Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.
  • Prov 5:15-19 : 15 Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well. 16 Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes. 17 But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 He that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing, and receiueth fauour of the Lord.
  • Prov 19:13-14 : 13 A foolish sonne is the calamitie of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continuall dropping. 14 House & riches are the inheritance of the fathers: but a prudent wife commeth of the Lord.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to dwell in the wildernesse, then with a contentious and angry woman.
  • 1 Cor 7:1-2 : 1 Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman. 2 Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.
  • 1 Cor 7:26-28 : 26 I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife. 28 But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
  • 1 Cor 7:32-35 : 32 And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord. 33 But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband. 35 And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord. 40 But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.
  • 1 Tim 5:11-15 : 11 But refuse the yonger widowes: for when they haue begun to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marrie, 12 Hauing damnation, because they haue broken the first faith. 13 And likewise also being idle they learne to goe about from house to house: yea, they are not onely ydle, but also pratlers and busibodies, speaking things which are not comely. 14 I will therefore that the yonger women marie, and beare children, and gouerne the house, and giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake euill. 15 For certaine are alreadie turned backe after Satan.

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    3 Then came vnto him the Pharises tempting him, & saying to him, Is it lawfull for a man to put away his wife vpon euery occasion?

    4 And he answered & sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

    5 And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

    6 Wherefore they are no more twaine, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

    7 They said to him, Why did then Moses commaund to giue a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away?

    8 He sayd vnto them, Moses, because of the hardnes of your heart, suffered you to put away your wiues: but from the beginning it was not so.

    9 I say therefore vnto you, that whosoeuer shall put away his wife, except it be for whoredome, and marry another, committeth adulterie: and whosoeuer marieth her which is diuorced, doeth commit adulterie.

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    7 For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

    8 And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.

    9 Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.

    10 And in the house his disciples asked him againe of that matter.

    11 And he sayd vnto them, Whosoeuer shal put away his wife and marrie another, committeth adulterie against her.

    12 And if a woman put away her husband, & be married to another, she committeth adulterie.

  • Matt 19:11-12
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    11 But he sayd vnto them, All men cannot receiue this thing, saue they to whom it is giuen.

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    33 Therefore at the resurrection, whose wife of them shall she be? For seuen had her to wife.

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    35 But they which shalbe counted worthy to enioy that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry wiues, neither are married.

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    31 It hath bene sayd also, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, let him giue her a bill of diuorcement.

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    8 Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

    9 But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

    10 And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

    11 But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.

    12 But to ye remnant I speake, & not ye Lord, If any brother haue a wife, ye beleeueth not, if she be cotent to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.

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    26 I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.

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    28 But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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    4 And they sayd, Moses suffered to write a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away.

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    1 Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

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    4 For Iohn saide vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

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    23 In the resurrection then, when they shall rise againe, whose wife shall she be of them? For seuen had her to wife.

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