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English Revised Version

Mark 10:9

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Jesus, the Christ;   Marriage;   Thompson Chain Reference - Home;   Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Divorce;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Conflagration;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Pentateuch;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Celibacy;   Concubine;   Divorce;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Marriage;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Jesus Christ;   Mss;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Asceticism (2);   Celibacy (2);   Common Life;   Discourse;   Divorce (2);   Ethics (2);   Eunuch ;   Hating, Hatred;   Home (2);   Law of God;   Marriage;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Concubine;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Divorce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Asunder;   Divorce in New Testament;   Family;   Inspiration;   Join;   Judaea;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Marriage;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
King James Version (1611)
What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.
King James Version
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
English Standard Version
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate."
New Century Version
God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them."
Amplified Bible
"Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce]."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Legacy Standard Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Contemporary English Version
And no one should separate a couple that God has joined together."
Complete Jewish Bible
So then, no one should break apart what God has joined together."
Darby Translation
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
Easy-to-Read Version
God has joined them together, so no one should separate them."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.
George Lamsa Translation
What therefore God has joined, let no man separate.
Good News Translation
No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."
Lexham English Bible
Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."
Literal Translation
Therefore, what God yoked together, let not man put apart.
American Standard Version
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Bible in Basic English
Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.
Hebrew Names Version
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
International Standard Version
Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."
Etheridge Translation
What Aloha therefore hath conjoined, man may not separate.
Murdock Translation
What therefore God hath conjoined, let not man separate.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore, what God hath coupled together, let not man seperate.
World English Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Weymouth's New Testament
What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor that thing that God ioynede togidere, no man departe.
Update Bible Version
What therefore God has joined together, don't let man separate.
Webster's Bible Translation
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate.
New English Translation
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
New King James Version
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
New Living Translation
let no one split apart what God has joined together."
New Life Bible
Let no man divide what God has put together."
New Revised Standard
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What then, God, hath yoked together, let, a man, not put asunder.
Douay-Rheims Bible
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
Revised Standard Version
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Therfore what God hath cuppled let not ma separat.
Young's Literal Translation
what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let not man therfore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.
Mace New Testament (1729)
let no man therefore separate what God has designed to be one.
Simplified Cowboy Version
And what God has joined together, what right has anyone else to come and try to sort off one?"

Contextual Overview

1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judaea and beyond Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; 8 and the twain shall become one flesh: so that they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 10 And in the house the disciples asked him again of this matter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 7:1-3, 1 Chronicles 7:10-13

Reciprocal: Matthew 19:6 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men which were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:11
And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 25:27
And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis 27:30
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.
Psalms 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold, I will send for many fishers saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Ezekiel 13:18
and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Micah 7:2
The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What therefore God hath joined together,....

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this question about divorce explained in the notes at Matthew 19:1-12.

Mark 10:12

And if a woman shall put away her husband - It would seem, from this, that a woman, among the Jews, had the power of separating herself from her husband, yet this right is not given her by the law of Moses. There is not, however, any positive evidence that females often claimed or exercised this right. Cases had occurred, indeed, in which it had been done. The wife of Herod had rejected her former husband and married Herod. And though instances of this kind “might” have been attempted to be defended by the example of Pagans, yet our Saviour was desirous of showing them that it did not free them from the charge of adultery. The apostles were going forth to teach Pagan nations, and it was proper for Christ to teach them how to act in such cases, and to show them that they were cases of real adultery.


 
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