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Mark 10:5–9

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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From verse 5

  1. Matthew 19:8Rank 1 from verse 5
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    8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

  2. Acts 7:51Rank 2 from verse 5
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    51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  3. Nehemiah 9:16–17Rank 3 from verse 5
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    16But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

    17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

  4. Hebrews 3:7–10Rank 4 from verse 5
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    7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

    8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

    9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

    10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

  5. Nehemiah 9:26Rank 5 from verse 5
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    26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

From verse 6

  1. Genesis 1:27Rank 1 from verse 6
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    27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  2. Genesis 5:2Rank 2 from verse 6
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    2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  3. Genesis 1:1Rank 3 from verse 6
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    1IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

  4. Genesis 2:20–23Rank 4 from verse 6
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    20And 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.

    21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

    22And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

    23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

  5. 2 Peter 3:4Rank 5 from verse 6
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    4And 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.

From verse 7

  1. Genesis 2:24Rank 1 from verse 7
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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  2. Matthew 19:5–6Rank 2 from verse 7
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    5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

    6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  3. Ephesians 5:31Rank 3 from verse 7
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    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

From verse 8

  1. Ephesians 5:28Rank 1 from verse 8
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    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  2. Genesis 2:24Rank 2 from verse 8
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    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  3. 1 Corinthians 6:16Rank 3 from verse 8
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    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

From verse 9

  1. Romans 7:1–3Rank 1 from verse 9
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    1KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

    2For 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.

    3So 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 be married to another man.

  2. 1 Chronicles 7:10–13Rank 2 from verse 9
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    10The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

    11All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

    12Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

    13¶ The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Mark 10:5

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hardness

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Sense 1: The condition of being hard, firm, or resistant. Sense 2: Difficulty or hardship. Sense 3: Figuratively, stubbornness or insensibility of heart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wrote

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Set down, recorded, composed, or communicated in writing; the past tense of write.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Mark 10:6

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

creation

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Sense 1: The act of causing to exist or bringing the world or another created thing into being. Sense 2: The created order or that which has been made.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

female

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Of the sex that bears offspring; a woman or female animal.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604

DEFINED WORDS

Mark 10:7

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cause

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Sense 1: A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case. Sense 2: As a verb, to make something happen.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

leave

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1. To depart, cease from, abandon, forsake, release, permit, entrust, bequeath, cause or allow to remain, omit, exclude, or not take. 2. As a noun, permission or liberty to act, including permission to depart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

mother

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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cleave

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Sense 1: To split or divide. Sense 2: To cling closely or remain joined.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Mark 10:8

COMBINED MEANING

twain

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Two persons or things considered together or separately; a pair or both of two.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Mark 10:9

COMBINED MEANING

joined

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Connected, fastened, united, associated, attached, adjoining, or brought together.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

put

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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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10:2¶ And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

10:3And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

10:4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

10:5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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10:7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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10:8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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10:9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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10:10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

10:11And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

10:12And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

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