NET Bible
"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’?"
— Matthew 19:5, NET Bible
“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?'”
“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?”
Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”
He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
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’?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”
Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.