Mark 10:9

THE MESSAGE

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.

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

¹From there he went to the area of Judea across the Jordan. A crowd of people, as was so often the case, went along, and he, as he so often did, taught them. Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?" ³ Jesus said, "What did Moses command?" ⁴ They answered, "Moses gave permission to fill out a certificate of dismissal and divorce her." ⁵Jesus said, "Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways. In the original creation, God made male and female to be together. Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage he becomes one flesh with a woman—no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity. Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart." ¹⁰When they were back home, the disciples brought it up again. Jesus gave it to them straight: "A man who divorces his wife so he can marry someone else commits adultery against her. And a woman who divorces her husband so she can marry someone else commits adultery."

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
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.

Genesis 6:11
As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core.

Genesis 13:13
The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God .

Genesis 25:27
The boys grew up. Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman. Jacob was a quiet man preferring life indoors among the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he loved his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 27:30
And then right after Isaac had blessed Jacob and Jacob had left, Esau showed up from the hunt. He also had prepared a hearty meal. He came to his father and said, "Let my father get up and eat of his son's game, that he may give me his personal blessing."

2 Chronicles 28:22
But King Ahaz didn't learn his lesson—at the very time that everyone was turning against him, he continued to be against God ! He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus. He had just been defeated by Damascus; he thought, "If I worship the gods who helped Damascus, those gods just might help me, too." But things only went from bad to worse: first Ahaz in ruins and then the country. He cleaned out The Temple of God of everything useful and valuable, boarded up the doors of The Temple, and then went out and set up pagan shrines for his own use all over Jerusalem. And not only in Jerusalem, but all over Judah—neighborhood shrines for worshiping any and every god on sale. And was God ever angry!

Jeremiah 16:16
"Now, watch for what comes next: I'm going to assemble a bunch of fishermen." God 's Decree! "They'll go fishing for my people and pull them in for judgment. Then I'll send out a party of hunters, and they'll hunt them out in all the mountains, hills, and caves. I'm watching their every move. I haven't lost track of a single one of them, neither them nor their sins.

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.