Matthew 19:6 · KJV
“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
— Matthew 19:6
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Matthew 19 — Context
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made {them} at the beginning made them male and female,
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?
6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Cross References
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.
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:
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.
Ephesians 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet {is} she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Proverbs 2:17
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.