Mark - 10:7 Meaning

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;”

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-12 Wherever Jesus was, the people flocked after him in crowds, and he taught them. Preaching was Christ's constant practice. He here shows that the reason why Moses' law allowed divorce, was such that they ought not to use the permission; it was only for the hardness of their hearts. God himself joined man and wife together; he has fitted them to be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not to be lightly untied. Let those who are for putting away their wives consider what would become of themselves, if God should deal with them in like manner.

“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”

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