Matthew 19:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

He said to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

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  • Mal 2:13-14 : 13 And this you have done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and crying out, so much that he regards not the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand. 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 And Jesus answering said to him, Permit it to be so now: for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him.
  • Mark 10:5 : 5 And Jesus answered and said to them, Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 And Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, entered the ark because of the floodwaters.
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
  • Zech 7:12 : 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.
  • Matt 8:31 : 31 So the demons begged him, saying, If you cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of swine.

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  • Matt 19:3-7
    5 verses
    87%

    3The Pharisees also came to him, testing him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?

    4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

    7They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?

  • Mark 10:2-12
    11 verses
    84%

    2And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? testing him.

    3And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

    4And they said, Moses allowed to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.

    5And Jesus answered and said to them, Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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

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

    8And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

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

    11And he said to them, Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

  • Matt 19:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.

    10His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

    11But he said to them, All cannot receive this saying, except those to whom it has been given.

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

    32But I say to you, that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

  • Luke 16:18
    74%

    18Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Deut 24:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

    4Her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

  • Luke 20:34
    69%

    34And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

  • Matt 5:27-28
    2 verses
    68%

    27You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery:'

    28But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  • Mal 2:16
    68%

    16For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce; for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

  • John 8:5
    68%

    5Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned: but what do you say?

  • Gen 2:24
    67%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

  • Matt 22:29-31
    3 verses
    67%

    29Jesus answered and said to them, You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

    30For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven.

    31But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • John 4:18
    67%

    18for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.

  • Luke 20:28-29
    2 verses
    66%

    28Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any man's brother dies, having a wife, and he dies without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.

    29There were therefore seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

  • Matt 19:18
    66%

    18He said to him, Which ones? Jesus said, You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

  • Eph 5:31
    66%

    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

  • Mark 12:19
    66%

    19'Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies and leaves behind a wife and no children, his brother should marry the wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

  • Rom 7:3
    66%

    3So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

  • Matt 22:25
    66%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    65%

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Lev 19:1
    65%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Matt 14:4
    65%

    4For John had said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

  • Mark 7:12
    65%

    12And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

  • Exod 20:14
    65%

    14You shall not commit adultery.