Matthew 19:4-6
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one’?[a] 6 So they are no longer two but one.[b] What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
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- Matthew 19:5 Greek one flesh
- Matthew 19:6 Greek one flesh
Matthew 19:9
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity,[a] and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery.”[b][c]
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- Matthew 19:9 Other ancient authorities, after unchastity, read makes her commit adultery
- Matthew 19:9 Other ancient authorities omit and he who marries a divorced woman, commits adultery
- 19.9 This appears to refer to the case in Mt 5.32, though the Greek word for “except” is different.
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