Matthew 19:10
Good News Translation
His disciples said to him, "If this is how it is between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry."

New Revised Standard Version
His disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Contemporary English Version
The disciples said, "If that's how it is between a man and a woman, it's better not to get married."

New American Bible
[His] disciples said to him, “If that is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.

Genesis 2:18 And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

Proverbs 5:15-19 Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters. . . .

Proverbs 18:22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Proverbs 19:13,14 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through. . . .

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:1,2,8,26-28 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:32-35,39,40 But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. . . .

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

1 Timothy 5:11-15 But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry: . . .

Context
Teachings about Divorce
9And 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. 10His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry. 11Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:9
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.

Matthew 19:11
Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.

Matthew 19:9
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