Matthew 19:3
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
In context
1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, He left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.
3 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:3 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- WEB World English Bible
- Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, 'Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the Pharisees came to him tempting him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
- WBS Webster Bible
- The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?