Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
KJV
ἀπὸ δὲ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ ἐποίησεν αὐτούς·
Greek NT
ab initio autem creaturæ masculum et feminam fecit eos Deus.
Vulgate
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.
ASV
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θῆλυς
thelus
adjective · 5×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κτίσις
ktisis
noun · 19×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀρχή
arche
noun · 56×
ἄῤῥην
arren
adjective · 9×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: αὐτούς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτούς | RP: + ὁ θεός
- αὐτούς — SBLGNT
- αὐτούς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὁ θεός — Robinson-Pierpont
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Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Theology of the Body · 3 passages
The Meaning of Man's Original Solitude In the last reflection of the present cycle we reached an introductory conclusion, taken from the words of Genesis on the creation of man as male and female. We reached these words, that is, the "beginning," to which the Lord Jesus referred in his talk on the indissolubility of marriage (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). But the conclusion at w…
Original Innocence and Man's Historical State Today's meditation presupposes what has already been established by the various analyses made up to now. They sprang from the answer Jesus gave to his interlocutors (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). They had asked him a question about the indissolubility and unity of marriage. The Master had urged them to consider carefully that which w…
The Knowledge-Generation Cycle and the Perspective of Death We are drawing to the end of the cycle of reflections wherein we have tried to follow Christ's appeal handed down to us by Matthew 19:3-9 and by Mark 10:1-12: "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be…
Cross-references
- 2Pet 3:4 — And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Deut 24:5 — When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
- Gen 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Gen 2:20 — And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
- Gen 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Gen 5:2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Gen 5:2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Judg 21:22 — And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the w
- Mal 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
- Mal 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife
- Mark 13:19 — For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
- Mark 13:19 — For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
- Rom 7:3 — So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she