A moment in scripture
Matthew 19:5
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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?
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The surrounding passage
- Matthew 19:3
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- Matthew 19:4
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
- Matthew 19:6
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- Matthew 19:7
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.