10His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
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But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: …
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. …
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)We have here the law of Christ in the case of divorce, occasioned, as some other declarations of his will, by a dispute with the Pharisees . So patiently did he endure the contradiction of sinners, that he turned it into instructions to his own disciples! Observe, here I. The case proposed by the Pharisees (Matt. 19:3); Isa. it lawful for a man to put away his wife ? This they asked, tempting him,…
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