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Mark 10:9

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

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.
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 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 to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan River. Again crowds gathered to him, and again, as was his custom, he taught them. 2 Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4 They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her." 5 But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts. 6 But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female . 7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, 8 and the two will become one flesh . So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." 10 In the house once again, the disciples asked 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 on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Genesis 6:11
The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 13:13
(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord .)
Genesis 25:27
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
Genesis 27:30
Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
2 Chronicles 28:22
During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord .
Psalms 52:7
"Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others."
Jeremiah 16:16
But for now I, the Lord , say: "I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.
Ezekiel 13:18
and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands on all their wrists and make headbands for heads of every size to entrap people's lives! Will you entrap my people's lives, yet preserve your own lives?
Micah 7:2
Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own 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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