Matthew 19:4–6
Jesus goes back to the beginning to explain what marriage is
Study it word by word4But he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
In its context
2And many crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3And Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
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7They say to him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce and to divorce her?”
8He says to them, “Moses, because of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
Its words in the original
- ἀποκριθεὶςapokritheis· answer
Answer, reply; speak up.
- εἶπενeipen· say
Say, speak; in the passive, "be called".
- ἀνέγνωτεanegnōte· read
Read.
- κτίσαςktisas· create
Create.
- ἀρχῆςarchēs· beginning
Beginning, start; also authority, rule.
- ἄρσενarsen· male
Male.
- θῆλυthēly· female
Female; a woman.
- ἐποίησενepoiēsen· do, make
Do, make, produce.
- ἝνεκαHeneka· because of
On account of, for the sake of.
- καταλείψειkataleipsei· leave, abandon
Leave, leave behind; abandon.
- ἄνθρωποςanthrōpos· human being, man
Human being, person, man (without distinguishing male or female).
- πατέραpatera· father, Father
Father; also ancestor.
- μητέραmētera· mother
Mother.
- κολληθήσεταιkollēthēsetai· cling to, join
Join, stick to, cling to someone or something.
- γυναικὶgynaiki· woman, wife
Woman; with a possessive, wife.
- ἔσονταιesontai· be
Be, exist.
- δύοdyo· two
Two.
- σάρκαsarka· flesh
Flesh: the body, and weak human nature; "flesh and blood", a human being with only human strength.
- μίανmian· one
One.
- ὥστεhōste· so that
So that, therefore.
- θεὸςtheos· God, god
God. In the plural or in another sense, "gods".
- συνέζευξενsynezeuxen· join together
Yoke together, join.
- χωριζέτωchōrizetō· separate
Separate; in the passive, depart, leave.