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Matthew 19:3

World English Bible

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

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Matthew 19:3 in other translations

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Matthew 19:3 · American Standard Version

Matthew 19:3 in context

  1. 1When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
  2. 2Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
  3. 3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
  4. 4He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
  5. 5and 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?’