5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
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And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; …
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. …
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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