Matthew 19:3
World English Bible (WEB)
Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
In context
1 When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2 Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
3 Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”
4 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
5 and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
Matthew 19:3 in every translation
- 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?”
- 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?
- 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?”
- 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?