5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?


In Context

2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

Matthew 19:5 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:5For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the twain shall become one flesh?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be — the two — for one flesh?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall join to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?