NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

Matthew 19:4

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He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Matthew 19:4 in context

Matthew 19:1–7

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When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.

2

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

3

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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He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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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’?

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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

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They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”

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  1. Genesis 1:27

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