Catholic Public Domain Version
"“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh. "
— Matthew 19:5, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
“and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh? ”
“and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'”
“and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?”
“For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.”
“For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?”
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
And great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
And the Pharisees approached him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to separate from his wife, no matter what the cause?”
And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said:
“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.
And so, now they are not two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”
They said to him, “Then why did Moses command him to give a bill of divorce, and to separate?”
He said to them: “Although Moses permitted you to separate from your wives, due to the hardness of your heart, it was not that way from the beginning.