3Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"


In Context

1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.

2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"

4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'

5 and 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' ?

Matthew 19:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:3The 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, and saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:3And there came unto him Pharisees, tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, |Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:3And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:3The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?