Matthew 19:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Matthew 19:6 —

Old words in this verse

twain: — two.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 10:9
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Romans 7:2
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.
1 Corinthians 7:10-14
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: …
Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

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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…