Matthew 19:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

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.

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  • Mal 2:13-14 : 13 And this haue ye done againe, and couered the altar of the Lorde with teares, with weeping and with mourning: because the offering is no more regarded, neither receiued acceptably at your handes. 14 Yet yee say, Wherein? Because the Lorde hath beene witnesse betweene thee and the wife of thy youth, against whome thou hast transgressed: yet is shee thy companion, and the wife of thy couenant.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Then Iesus answering, saide to him, Let be nowe: for thus it becommeth vs to fulfill all righteousnes. So he suffered him.
  • Mark 10:5 : 5 Then Iesus answered, & sayd vnto them, For the hardnes of your heart he wrote this precept vnto you.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 So Noah entred and his sonnes, and his wife, & his sonnes wiues with him into the Arke, because of the waters of the flood.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in Meribah, and as in the day of Massah in the wildernesse.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus sayeth the Lord, Stande in the waies and beholde, and aske for the olde way, which is the good way and walke therein, and yee shall finde rest for your soules: but they saide, We will not walke therein.
  • Zech 7:12 : 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, least they should heare the Lawe and the wordes which the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministerie of ye former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.
  • Matt 8:31 : 31 And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.

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  • Matt 19:3-7
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    87%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Mark 10:2-12
    11 verses
    84%

    2Then the Pharises came and asked him, if it were lawfull for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.

    3And he answered, and sayde vnto them, What did Moses commaund you?

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

    5Then Iesus answered, & sayd vnto them, For the hardnes of your heart he wrote this precept vnto you.

    6But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Matt 19:9-11
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    9I 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.

    10Then sayd his disciples to him, If the matter be so betweene man and wife, it is not good to marry.

    11But he sayd vnto them, All men cannot receiue this thing, saue they to whom it is giuen.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    78%

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

    32But I say vnto you, whosoeuer shall put away his wife (except it be for fornication) causeth her to commit adulterie: & whosoeuer shal marrie her that is diuorced, committeth adulterie.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Whosoeuer putteth away his wife, and marieth another, committeth adulterie: and whosoeuer marieth her that is put away from her husband, committeth adulterie.

  • Deut 24:1-4
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    72%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, & gone her way, and marrie with an other man,

    3And if the latter husband hate her, & write her a letter of diuorcement, & put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife:

    4Then her first husband, which sent her away, may not take her againe to be his wife, after that she is defiled: for that is abomination in the sight of the Lord, and thou shalt not cause the land to sinne, which the Lord thy God doeth giue thee to inherite.

  • Luke 20:34
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    34Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, The children of this world marry wiues, and are married.

  • Matt 5:27-28
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    27Ye haue heard that it was sayd to them of olde time, Thou shalt not commit adulterie.

    28But I say vnto you, that whosoeuer looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.

  • Mal 2:16
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    16If thou hatest her, put her away, sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, yet he couereth the iniurie vnder his garment, saieth the Lord of hosts: therefore keepe your selues in your spirite, and transgresse not.

  • John 8:5
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    5Now Moses in our Law commanded, that such should be stoned: what sayest thou therefore?

  • Gen 2:24
    67%

    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    10And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

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

  • Matt 22:29-31
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    29Then Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them, Ye are deceiued, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

    30For in the resurrection they neither marie wiues, nor wiues are bestowed in mariage, but are as the Angels of God in heauen.

    31And concerning the resurrection of the dead, haue ye not read what is spoken vuto you of God, saying,

  • John 4:18
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    18For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.

  • Luke 20:28-29
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    28Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

    29Now there were seuen brethren, & the first tooke a wife, and he dyed without children.

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    18He sayd to him, Which? And Iesus sayde, These, Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adulterie: Thou shalt not steale: Thou shalt not beare false witnesse.

  • Eph 5:31
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    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

  • Mark 12:19
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    19Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, and leaue his wife, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother.

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    3So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free fro the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

  • Matt 22:25
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    25Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

  • Lev 19:1
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    1And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

  • Matt 14:4
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    4For Iohn saide vnto him, It is not lawfull for thee to haue her.

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    12So ye suffer him no more to doe any thing for his father, or his mother,

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    14Thou shalt not commit adulterie.