Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
KJV
ἕνεκεν τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ,
Greek NT
Propter hoc relinquet homo patrem suum et matrem, et adhærebit ad uxorem suam :
Vulgate
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
ASV
For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καταλείπω
kataleipo
verb · 25×
μήτηρ
meter
noun · 84×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἕνεκα
eneka
preposition · 26×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ | Treg/NIV/RP: καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ
- καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
- καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
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
- Eph 5:31 — For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
- Eph 5:31 — For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
- 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.
- Matt 19:5 — 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?