Matthew 19:4

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He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

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  • Gen 5:2 : 2 He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”
  • Gen 1:27 : 27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
  • Gen 2:18 : 18 The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
  • Luke 10:26 : 26 He said to him,“What is written in the law? How do you understand it?”
  • Mal 2:15 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
  • Matt 12:3 : 3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
  • Matt 21:6 : 6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
  • Matt 22:31 : 31 Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,
  • Mark 2:25 : 25 He said to them,“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry–
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
  • Mark 12:26 : 26 Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
  • Luke 6:3 : 3 Jesus answered them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Mark 10:2-11
    10 verses
    88%

    2Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

    3He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”

    4They said,“Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.”

    5But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

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

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

    10In the house once again, the disciples asked him about this.

    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

  • Matt 19:5-10
    6 verses
    84%

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

    7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

    8Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

    9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

    10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

  • Gen 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • Matt 19:3
    78%

    3Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

  • Gen 2:22-25
    4 verses
    77%

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 1:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • Eph 5:31
    75%

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

  • Luke 20:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    33In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For all seven had married her.”

    34So Jesus said to them,“The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

  • Matt 22:28-31
    4 verses
    73%

    28In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had married her.”

    29Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

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

    31Now as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

    32But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

  • 1 Cor 11:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

    9Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.

  • Gen 2:18
    71%

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

  • Deut 24:1
    71%

    1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

  • Matt 5:27
    70%

    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • Luke 16:18
    69%

    18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • John 4:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17The woman replied,“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,“Right you are when you said,‘I have no husband,’

    18for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

  • Mal 2:15
    69%

    15No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

  • Mark 12:23
    68%

    23In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For all seven had married her.”

  • Luke 20:28
    68%

    28They asked him,“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

  • Matt 22:1
    68%

    1The Parable of the Wedding Banquet Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    68%

    16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”

  • 1 Cor 7:4
    68%

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

  • 1 Tim 2:13
    68%

    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.