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Mark 10:5-9
New International Version
Mark 10:5-9
New International Version
5 “It was because your hearts were hard(A) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. 6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](B) 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c](C) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Mark 10:5-9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Mark 10:5-9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.(A) 6 But from the beginning(B) of creation(C) God[a] made them male and female.(D)[b]
7 For this reason a man will leave(E)
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],[c]
8 and the two will become one flesh.(F)[d]
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”(G)
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Mark 10:5-9
New Living Translation
Mark 10:5-9
New Living Translation
5 But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts. 6 But ‘God made them male and female’[a] from the beginning of creation. 7 ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,[b] 8 and the two are united into one.’[c] Since they are no longer two but one, 9 let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
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Mark 10:5-9
Good News Translation
Mark 10:5-9
Good News Translation
5 Jesus said to them, “Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach. 6 (A)But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,’ as the scripture says. 7 (B)‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,[a] 8 and the two will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one. 9 No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts do not have and unite with his wife.
Mark 10:5-9
King James Version
Mark 10:5-9
King James Version
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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