Matthew 19:10

World English Bible (2000)

His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

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  • Gen 2:18 : 18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
  • Prov 5:15-19 : 15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. 18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
  • Prov 19:13-14 : 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping. 14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.
  • 1 Cor 7:1-2 : 1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
  • 1 Cor 7:26-28 : 26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. 28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
  • 1 Cor 7:32-35 : 32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband. 35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Tim 5:11-15 : 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry; 12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge. 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting. 15 For already some have turned aside after Satan.

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

    4He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

    5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

    7They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

    8He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

    9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

  • Mark 10:7-12
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    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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

    9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

    10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.

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

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

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    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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    33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

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    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

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    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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

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    4They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

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    1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

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