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Matthew 19:9

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

KJV

λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν ὅτι ὃς ἂν ἀπολύσῃ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ μὴ ἐπὶ πορνείᾳ καὶ γαμήσῃ ἄλλην, μοιχᾶται.

Greek NT

Dico autem vobis, quia quicumque dimiserit uxorem suam, nisi ob fornicationem, et aliam duxerit, mœchatur : et qui dimissam duxerit, mœchatur.

Vulgate

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

ASV

And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γαμέω
gameo
verb · 28×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μοιχάω
moichao
verb · 4×
πορνεία
porneia
noun · 25×
ἀπολύω
apoluo
verb · 67×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἄν
an
particle · 165×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

trivial
SBLGNT: ὅτι | WH/NIV/RP: ὅτι
  • ὅτι — SBLGNT
  • ὅτι — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: καὶ ὁ ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσας μοιχᾶται | Treg/RP: καὶ ὁ ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσας μοιχᾶται
  • καὶ ὁ ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσας μοιχᾶται — SBLGNT
  • καὶ ὁ ἀπολελυμένην γαμήσας μοιχᾶται — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

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§2053To this first reply Jesus adds a second: "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."2 This reply does not do away with the first: following Jesus Christ involves keeping the Commandments. the Law has not been abolished,3 but rather man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Maste…
§2364The married couple forms "the intimate partnership of life and love established by the Creator and governed by his laws; it is rooted in the conjugal covenant, that is, in their irrevocable personal consent."146 Both give themselves definitively and totally to one another. They are no longer two; from now on they form one flesh. the covenant they freely contracted imposes on th…
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2. Let the husband pay the wife the honor due to her: in like manner the wife the husband. Now what is the meaning of the due honor? The wife has not power over her own body; but is both the slave and the mistress of the husband. And if you decline the service which is due, you have offended God. But if you wish to withdraw yourself, it must be with the husband's permission, th…
Theology of the Body · 4 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…
Creation As a Fundamental and Original Gift Let us return to analyzing the text of Genesis 2:25: "And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed" (Gn 2:25). According to this passage, the man and the woman saw themselves, as it were, through the mystery of creation. They saw themselves in this way, before knowing that they were naked. This seeing each other is n…
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…
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I charge thee, saith he, to guard thy chastity, and let no thought enter into thy heart of another man's wife, or of fornication, or of any such things; for in so doing thou committest a great sin. But if thou always remember thine own wife, thou wilt never sin.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
  • 1Cor 7:4 — The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
  • 1Cor 7:4 — The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
  • 1Cor 7:10 — And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
  • 1Cor 7:39 — The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
  • Ezek 16:15 — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
  • Ezek 16:29 — Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
  • Gen 12:18 — And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
  • Gen 20:3 — But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
  • Jer 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
  • Jer 3:8 — And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played t
  • Luke 16:18 — Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
  • Luke 16:18 — Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
  • Mark 10:11 — And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
  • Mark 10:11 — And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
  • Matt 5:32 — But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
  • Rom 7:2 — For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.