Mark 10 · Verse 9

Mark 10:9

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Mark 10:9, King James Version

Mark 10:9 in other translations

BSBTherefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
WEBWhat therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
ASVWhat therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
YLTwhat therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'
DARBYWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
BBELet not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.
WebsterWhat therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate.

What does Mark 10:9 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 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…

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Mark 10:9 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὃhoWhatG3739
οὖνounthereforeG3767
ὁho<the>G3588
θεὸςtheosGodG2316
συνέζευξεν,sunezeuxenhas joined together,G4801
ἄνθρωποςanthrōposmanG444
μὴmēnotG3361
χωριζέτω.¶chōrizetōshould separate.G5563

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Mark 10:9

  • Romans 7:1-3

    Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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Ro 7:1-3; 1Ch 7:10-13

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Context

  • Mark 10:8

    And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

  • Mark 10:9

    What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  • Mark 10:10

    And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

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Mark 10:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Pues lo que Dios juntó, no lo aparte el hombre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ce donc que Dieu a uni, que l’homme ne le sépare pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Was nun Gott zusammengefügt hat, soll der Mensch nicht scheiden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quod ergo Deus conjunxit, homo non separet.