Read the Bible
KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE

Matthew 19:4

TEXT EDITION
Pure Cambridge Edition selected
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Share
Email linkOpen a new message in your email app
Read chapterReport issue
More

PASSAGE SELECTION

Build from either side

1 selected · 9 available

Choose up to 10 verses in this chapter. The study tools update with the selected passage.

SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE

Cross References

5 Essential passages are open for comparison.

Reference depth

From verse 4

  1. Genesis 2:23Rank 1 from verse 4
    Open

    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.

  2. Genesis 1:27Rank 2 from verse 4
    Open

    27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  3. Genesis 5:2Rank 3 from verse 4
    Open

    2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  4. Luke 10:26Rank 4 from verse 4
    Open

    26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

  5. Malachi 2:15Rank 5 from verse 4
    Open

    15And 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 of his youth.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

Open a word for its full definition and concordance.

DEFINED WORDS

Matthew 19:4

COMBINED MEANING

answered

↗

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

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

read

↗

To perceive and understand written words, whether silently or by uttering them aloud.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

which

↗

1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

made

↗

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

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

COMBINED MEANING

female

↗

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

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

READ THE PASSAGE

View in context

Suggested context · Matthew 19:3–9

The selected passage is highlighted. Context is a study aid.

19:3¶ The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

19:4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Selected passage

19:5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

19:6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

19:7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

19:8He 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.

19:9And 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.

LOCAL PASTOR DIRECTORY

Ask a Pastor Near You

Enter a U.S. ZIP code to find nearby pastors committed to holding fast the faithful word.

Your ZIP is processed in this browser from local data. It is not sent to a ZIP lookup service or to a church. ZIP coordinates from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.