Verse 20

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 7:33 : 33 and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
• Deut 24:5 : 5 `When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and `one' doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.
• Luke 14:26-28 : 26 `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple; 27 and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple. 28 `For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expense, whether he have the things for completing?
• Luke 18:29-30 : 29 and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God, 30 who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'
• 1 Cor 7:29-31 : 29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having; 30 and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing; 31 and those using this world, as not using `it' up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.