Mark 10:9

Lexham English Bible

Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."

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."

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.

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

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 from there he set out and came to the region of Judea and the other side of the Jordan, and again crowds came together to him. And again, as he was accustomed to do, he began to teach them. ² And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him. ³ And he answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?" ⁴ So they said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." ⁵ But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. ⁶ But from the beginning of creation ‘he made them male and female. ⁷ Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, ⁸ and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate." ¹⁰ And in the house again the disciples began to ask him about this.

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 upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them.

Genesis 6:11
And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 25:27
And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

Genesis 27:30
And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, immediately after Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh.

Psalms 52:7
"Look, the man who would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."

Jeremiah 16:16
Look, I am sending for many fishermen,' declares Yahweh, ‘and they will fish them out, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs.

Ezekiel 13:18
And you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to those who sew magic charm bands on all the wrists of the hands of my people and those who make the veils that are on the head of people of every height, to ensnare people's lives! Will you ensnare the lives of my people and keep yourselves alive?

Micah 7:2
The faithful person has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother with a net.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What therefore God hath joined together,....

:-.

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.