Logos Bible Study

Matthew 19:5

The Lexham English BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

5and said, ‘On account of this a man will leave his* father and his* mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?a

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. aA quotation from Gen 2:24

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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’?

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

And he said, ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

KJV 1900King James 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?

Public Domain