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Matthew 19:3-5
Worldwide English (New Testament)
Matthew 19:3-5
Worldwide English (New Testament)
3 The Pharisees came to Jesus to test him. They asked, `Is it right for a man to send his wife away from him for any reason?'
4 Jesus answered, `Have you not read this? From the time God first made people, he made them a man and a woman.
5 God said, "A man must leave his father and mother and must stay with his wife. The two of them will be like one person."
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Matthew 19:3-5
New International Version
Matthew 19:3-5
New International Version
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife(A) for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](B) 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]?(C)
Footnotes
- Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
- Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24
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