Matthew 19:1-6

1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, he withdrew from Galilee, and came to the coasts of Judaea beyond the Jordan;

2 and great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

4 But he answering said [to them], Have ye not read that he who made [them], from the beginning made them male and female,

5 and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

6 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Footnotes

• [a] Or 'took himself away.'
• [b] It may be translated 'that he who made them from the beginning, made them,' &c.: see Gen. 1.27 and 5.2.
• [c] Gen. 2.24.
• [d] Eis: lit. 'to one flesh;' with the force of, 'shall become so,' 'be for it,' 'though two persons, no longer two:' see Note, 1Cor. 6.16. There is no eis in 'but one flesh' in ver. 6.