But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
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But at the fyrste creacion God made the man and woman.
And for this thinges sake shall man leve his father and mother and bide by his wyfe
and they twayne shalbe one flesshe. So then are they now not twayne but one flesshe.
Therfore what God hath cuppled let not man separat.
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But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:
For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.
And they twaine shalbe one flesh: so that they are no more twaine, but one flesh.
Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.
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Cross-references (14)
- Genesis 1:27 (v6) God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 2:24 (vv7–8) Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Ephesians 5:28 (v8) Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
- Genesis 5:2 (v6) He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
- Matthew 19:5-6 (v7) 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?’ So…
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- Romans 7:1-3 (v9) Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? For the…
- Genesis 1:1 (v6) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Ephesians 5:31 (v7) “For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”
- Genesis 2:20-23 (v6) The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a…
- Malachi 2:14-16 (v6) Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously,…
- 2 Peter 3:4 (v6) and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the…
- 1 Corinthians 6:16 (v8) Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
- Mark 13:19 (v6) For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until…
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv6–9 But from the beginning of the creation,.... Of the…
But from the beginning of the creation,.... Of the world, or of man: , "from the beginning of the creation of the world", is a way of speaking often used by the Jews (r): the phrase "of the creation" is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions; and so it was in Beza's most ancient copy, and it is only read, "from the beginning", as in Mat_19:4,8; see Gill on Mat 19:4, See Gill on Mat 19:8.
God made them male and female; the first that were created, Adam and Eve, the first parents of mankind, the first couple that came together were one male and one female; so that there could be no polygamy or divorce: Adam could not have more wives than one: nor could he put away Eve, and marry another; no provision was made for any such usages and practices; See Gill on Mat 19:4. In the Complutensian edition, it is added, "and said", the following words.
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(r) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 3. fol. 2. 3. & sect. 4. fol. 4. 1.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv6–7 From the beginning of the creation - Therefore Moses…
From the beginning of the creation - Therefore Moses in the first of Genesis gives us an account of things from the beginning of the creation. Does it not clearly follow, that there was no creation previous to that which Moses describes? God made them male and female - Therefore Adam did not at first contain both sexes in himself: but God made Adam, when first created, male only; and Eve female only. And this man and woman he joined together, in a state of innocence, as husband and wife.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv6–7 But from the beginning of the world it was…
But from the beginning of the world it was not thus; for then God only formed one man and one woman, that they might be exclusively and invariably attached to each other.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv7, 9 7. For this cause] He thus shews that from…
7. For this cause] He thus shews that from the beginning God had designed that the marriage tie should be the closest and most indissoluble of all ties, and in the words added by St Matthew (Mat_19:9) rebukes the adultery of Herod Antipas, though without naming him, in the severest terms.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v7 For this reason a man ... one flesh
For this reason a man ... one flesh
Jesus continues to quote what God said in the book of Genesis.
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For this reason
"Therefore" or "Because of this"
be united to his wife
"join with his wife"
they are no longer two, but one flesh
This is a metaphor to illustrate their close union as husband and wife. AT: "the two people are like one person" or "they are no longer two, but together they are one body" (See: Metaphor)
Therefore what God has joined together, let no man tear apart
The phrase "what God has joined together" refers to any married couple. AT: "Therefore since God has joined together husband and wife, let no one tear them apart" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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