Mark 10:9

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

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WEBBE

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

BSB

Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

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The early church

But if two persons, whom God has joined together, are not to be separated; much more is it wrong to separate from Christ, the Church, which God has joined to Him.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(ubi sup.) What therefore God hath conjoined by making one flesh of a man and a woman, that man cannot separate, but God alone. Man separates, when we dismiss the first wife because we desire a second; but it is God who separates, when by common consent, for the sake of serving God, we so have wives as though we had none.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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