KJV King James Version
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 10:9
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
WEB World English Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
ASV American Standard Version
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.’
Surrounding context — Mark 10
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same [matter].
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
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Romans 7:1-3Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?1 Chronicles 7:10-13The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
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