Matthew 19:4-6

Teaching About Divorce

⁴ He answered, _t "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said, _u 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and _v the two shall become one flesh'? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. _w What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 1:27
   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
   Genesis 2:18
   Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
   Genesis 2:21 - 23
   So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
   Genesis 5:2
   Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
   Matthew 21:16
   And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?
   
2. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:31
   "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 6:16
   Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh.
   Malachi 2:15
   Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 2:24
   Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 7:10
   To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband