Matthew 19:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

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  • Mal 2:13-14 : 13 And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. 14 And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.
  • Mark 10:5 : 5 And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,
  • Gen 2:24 : 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
  • Gen 7:7 : 7 And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;
  • Ps 95:8 : 8 Harden not your heart as `in' Meribah, As `in' the day of Massah in the wilderness,
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'
  • Zech 7:12 : 12 And their heart they have made adamant, Against hearing the law, and the words, That Jehovah of Hosts sent by His Spirit, By the hand of the former prophets, And their is great wrath from Jehovah of Hosts.
  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
  • Matt 8:31 : 31 and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

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  • Matt 19:3-7
    5 verses
    87%

    3 And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

    4 And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,

    5 and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?

    6 so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

    7 They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

  • Mark 10:2-12
    11 verses
    84%

    2 And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him,

    3 and he answering said to them, `What did Moses command you?'

    4 and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

    5 And Jesus answering said to them, `For the stiffness of your heart he wrote you this command,

    6 but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

    7 on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8 and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

    9 what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

    10 And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,

    11 and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

    12 and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

  • Matt 19:9-11
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    81%

    9 `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    10 His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

    11 And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31 `And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

    32 but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

  • Luke 16:18
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    18 `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

  • Deut 24:1-4
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    1 `When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house,

    2 and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,

    3 and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given `it' into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

    4 `Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it `is' before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

  • Luke 20:34
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    34 And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

  • Matt 5:27-28
    2 verses
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    27 `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

    28 but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

  • Mal 2:16
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    16 For `I' hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He `who' hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

  • John 8:5
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    5 and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'

  • Gen 2:24
    67%

    24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-11
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    67%

    10 and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11 but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • Matt 22:29-31
    3 verses
    67%

    29 And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

    30 for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

    31 `And concerning the rising again of the dead, did ye not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

  • John 4:18
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    18 for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

  • Luke 20:28-29
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    66%

    28 saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

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    18 He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

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    31 `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

  • Mark 12:19
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    19 `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, that if any one's brother may die, and may leave a wife, and may leave no children, that his brother may take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother.

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    3 so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

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    25 `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

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    1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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    4 for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

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    12 and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,

  • Exod 20:14
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    14 `Thou dost not commit adultery.