6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
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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