Matthew 19:3-12
1599 Geneva Bible
3 ¶ [a]Then came unto him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to [b]put away his wife upon every occasion?
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, (A)that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,
5 And said, (B)For this cause, shall a man leave father and mother, and [c]cleave unto his wife, and they which were [d]two, shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath [e]coupled together.
7 [f]They said to him, Why did then (C) Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He said unto them, Moses, [g]because of the hardness of your heart, [h]suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 I say therefore unto you, (D)that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be [i]for whoredom, and marry another, commiteth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her which is divorced, doth commit adultery.
10 Then said his disciples to him, If the [j]matter be so between man and wife, it is not good to marry.
11 [k]But he said unto them, All men cannot [l]receive this thing, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some [m]eunuchs, which were so born of their mother’s belly: and there be some eunuchs, which be gelded by men: and there be some eunuchs, which have [n]gelded themselves for the kingdom of heaven. He that is able to receive this, let him receive it.
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- Matthew 19:3 The band of marriage ought not to be broken, unless it be for fornication.
- Matthew 19:3 To send her a book of divorcement, see also Matt. 1:19.
- Matthew 19:5 The Greek word imported to be glued unto, whereby is signified that straight knot, which is between man and wife, as though they were glued together.
- Matthew 19:5 They which were two, become as it were one: and this word flesh is by a figure taken for the whole man, or the body after the manner of the Hebrews.
- Matthew 19:6 Hath made them yoke fellows, as the marriage itself is by a borrowed kind of speech called a yoke.
- Matthew 19:7 Because political Laws are constrained to bear with some things, it followeth not by and by that God alloweth them.
- Matthew 19:8 Being occasioned by reason of the hardness of your hearts.
- Matthew 19:8 By a political law, not by the moral law: for this law is a perpetual law of God’s justice, the other boweth and bendeth as the carpenter’s Bevel.
- Matthew 19:9 Therefore in these days the Laws that were made against adulterers were not regarded: for they should have needed no divorcement, if marriage had been cut asunder with punishment by death.
- Matthew 19:10 If the matter stands so between man and wife, or in marriage.
- Matthew 19:11 The gift of continency is peculiar, and therefore no man can set a Law to himself of perpetual continency.
- Matthew 19:11 Receive and admit, as by translation we say, that a straight and narrow place is not able to receive many things.
- Matthew 19:12 The word Eunuch is a general word, and hath divers kinds under it, as gelded men and barren men.
- Matthew 19:12 Which abstain from marriage, and live continently through the gift of God.
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