Matthew 19:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

Matthew 19:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 7:32-35
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: …
1 Corinthians 7:39-40
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. …
1 Timothy 4:3
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.
1 Corinthians 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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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, n…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry--that is, “In this view of marriage, surely it must prove a snare rather than a blessing, and had better be avoided altogether.”