Matthew 19:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Mark 10:2 : 2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
  • Heb 3:9 : 9 where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.
  • Mark 12:13 : 13 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
  • Mark 12:15 : 15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
  • Luke 11:53-54 : 53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; 54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
  • John 8:6 : 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
  • Mal 2:14-16 : 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. 15 Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
  • Matt 5:31-32 : 31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,' 32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
  • Matt 16:1 : 1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
  • Matt 22:16-18 : 16 They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone. 17 Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
  • Matt 22:35 : 35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

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  • Mark 10:2-5
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    2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

    3He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

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

    5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

  • Matt 19:4-10
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    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."

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

  • Matt 5:31-32
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    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

  • Mark 10:9-12
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    75%

    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."

  • Luke 16:18
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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.

  • Mark 8:11
    74%

    11The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

  • Matt 16:1
    73%

    1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

  • Matt 22:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.

    35One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

  • Matt 22:41
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    41Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

  • Matt 22:15
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    15Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  • Mark 2:24
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    24The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

  • John 8:3
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    3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

  • Matt 22:17-18
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    17Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

    18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  • Deut 24:1
    72%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Luke 6:2
    71%

    2But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

  • Luke 20:22-23
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    22Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"

    23But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me?

  • Luke 14:3
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    3Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

  • Matt 19:2
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    2Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

  • Matt 15:1
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    1Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

  • Mark 12:18
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    18There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

  • Mark 12:13
    70%

    13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

  • Mark 3:6
    70%

    6The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

  • Deut 24:3
    70%

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Matt 12:2
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    2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."

  • Luke 11:53
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    53As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

  • Luke 20:34
    69%

    34Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

  • Luke 20:27-28
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    27Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

    28They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

  • Matt 15:3
    69%

    3He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Matt 15:12
    68%

    12Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

  • Mark 6:18
    68%

    18For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

  • Matt 14:4
    68%

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

  • Luke 20:2
    68%

    2They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"

  • John 8:5
    68%

    5Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"