Matthew 19:5
American Standard Version
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
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Matthew 19:5 in other translations
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
Matthew 19:5 in context
- 3And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- 4And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
- 5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
- 6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
- 7They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?