Mark 10:9

New Century Version

God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them."

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."

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

¹ Then Jesus left that place and went into the area of Judea and across the Jordan River. Again, crowds came to him, and he taught them as he usually did. ² Some Pharisees came to Jesus and tried to trick him. They asked, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife?" ³ Jesus answered, "What did Moses command you to do?" ⁴ They said, "Moses allowed a man to write out divorce papers and send her away." ⁵ Jesus said, "Moses wrote that command for you because you were stubborn. ⁶ But when God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.' ⁷ ‘So a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, ⁸ and the two will become one body.' So there are not two, but one. ⁹ God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them." ¹⁰ Later, in the house, his followers asked Jesus again about the question of divorce.

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 on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.

Genesis 6:11
People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.

Genesis 13:13
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .

Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter. He loved to be out in the fields. But Jacob was a quiet man and stayed among the tents.

Genesis 27:30
Isaac finished blessing Jacob. Then, just as Jacob left his father Isaac, Esau came in from hunting.

2 Chronicles 28:22
During Ahaz's troubles he was even more unfaithful to the Lord .

Psalms 52:7
"Look what happened to the man who did not depend on God but depended on his money. He grew strong by his evil plans."

Jeremiah 16:16
"I will soon send for many fishermen to come to this land," says the Lord . "And they will catch the people of Judah. After that, I will send for many hunters to come to this land. And they will hunt the people of Judah on every mountain and hill and in the cracks of the rocks.

Ezekiel 13:18
Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils of every length to trap people! You ruin the lives of my people but try to save your own lives.

Micah 7:2
All of the faithful people are gone; there is not one good person left in this country. Everyone is waiting to kill someone; everyone is trying to trap someone else.

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.