Matthew 19:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed fm the law of her husband.
  • Mark 10:9 : 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-14 : 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. 12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. 13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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  • Mark 10:5-12
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    5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

    6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

    7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

    8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

    10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

    11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

    12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

  • Matt 19:3-5
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    3The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

    4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

  • Eph 5:28-32
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    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

    29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

  • Gen 2:23-25
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    23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

    25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Matt 19:7-10
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    7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

    8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

    9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

    10His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-17
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    15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

    17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

    32But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

  • Deut 24:1-2
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    1When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is parted out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:9-11
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    9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

    11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

  • Luke 20:34-35
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    34And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

    35But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Mal 2:15-16
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    15And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

    16For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

  • Matt 22:30-31
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    30For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

    31But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  • Job 41:17
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    17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

  • Gen 2:18
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    18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

  • Rom 7:3
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    3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free fm that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • Mark 12:25
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    25For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

  • Mark 12:23
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    23In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.