Matthew 19:5

Verse

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’ ?

American Standard Version (1901)

and 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?

Bible in Basic English

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

Free Bible Version

He said, ‘This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother, and join with his wife, and the two shall become one.’

Geneva Bible 1599

And sayd, For this cause, shall a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

King James (Authorized) Version

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?

One Unity Resource Bible

and 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’ ?

Translation for Translators

That explains why God said, ‘When a man and woman marry, they should no longer live with their fathers and mothers. Instead, the two of them shall live together, and they shall become so closely united that they are like one person [MET].’

Unlocked Literal Bible

He who made them also said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.'

Noah Webster Bible

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

World English Bible

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?

Young's Literal Translation

and 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?

Context

Teachings about Divorce

⁴Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 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’ ?⁶So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

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Summary

In Matthew 19:5, Jesus quotes from Genesis 2:24, emphasizing the sacredness and permanence of marriage. This verse affirms that in God's design, a man and a woman are joined together in marriage to become one flesh, symbolizing a deep unity and commitment. Jesus' reference to this foundational truth reinforces the sanctity of marriage and the importance of honoring the marital covenant. It serves as a reminder of the divine intention for marriage to be a lifelong union based on love, respect, and faithfulness.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

And said, For this cause--to follow out this divine appointment. shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?--Jesus here sends them back to the original constitution of man as one pair, a male and a female; to their marriage, as such, by divine appointment; and to the purpose of God, expressed by the sacred historian, that in all time one man and one woman should by marriage become one flesh--so to continue as long as both are in the flesh. This being God's constitution, let not man break it up by causeless divorces.

John Gill Bible Commentary

And said,.... Gen 2:24 where they seem to be the words of Adam, though here they are ascribed to God, who made Adam and Eve; and as if they were spoken by him, when he brought them together; and which is easily reconciled by observing, that these words were spoken by Adam, under the direction of a divine revelation; showing, that there would be fathers, and mothers, and children; and that the latter, when grown up, would enter into a marriage state, and leave their parents, and cleave to their proper yoke fellows, which relations then were not in being: this therefore being the effect of a pure revelation from God, may be truly affirmed to be said by him. Some think they are the words of Moses the historian; and if they were, as they were delivered by divine inspiration, they may be rightly called the word of God. A note by Jarchi on this text exactly agrees herewith, which is "the holy Spirit says thus: for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife"; and not wives: and the phrase denotes that close union between a man and his wife, which is not to be dissolved for every cause, it being stricter than that which is between parents and children; for the wife must be cleaved unto, and father and mother forsaken: not that upon this new relation between man and wife, the former relation between parents and children ceases; nor does this phrase denote an entire separation from them, so as to have the affection alienated from them, or to be disengaged from all duty and obedience to them, and care and regard for them, for the future; but a relinquishing the "house of his father and the bed of his mother", as all the three Targums on the place explain it: that is, he shall quit the house of his father, and not bed and board there, and live with him as before; but having taken a wife to himself, shall live and cohabit with her: and they twain shall be one flesh; the word "twain" is: not in the Hebrew text in Genesis, but in the Septuagint version compiled by Jews, in the Samaritan Pentateuch, and version, and in the Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, who renders, it as here, "and they two shall be one flesh". This is the true sense, for neither more nor less can possibly be meant; and denotes that near conjunction, and strict union, between a man and his wife, the wife being a part of himself, and both as one flesh, and one body, and therefore not to be parted on every slight occasion; and has a particular respect to the act of carnal copulation, which only ought to be between one man and one woman, lawfully married to each other; See Gill on Co1 6:16.