TOB Bible Verses

3Some Pharisees came to him to test him and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

4And he answered them “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator created them male and female 5and 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’ ⁶So it is that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined let man not separate.”

7They objected, “Why then did Moses order to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

8Jesus answered, “Because of the hardness of your heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.”

Matthew 19:3-8

God created mankind in his image,
    in the image of God he created him;
    male and female he created them

Genesis 1:27

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will be one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

First account of the creation of man inserted into the seven days of the creation of the world

Genesis 1:1-2:4

Second account of the creation of man

2:5-25

the Lord God formed man with dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life

Genesis 2:7

God blessed them and said to them, "‘Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, and rule’

Gen 1:28

God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good

Gen 1:31

Creation of woman

Gen 2:18-23

Creation of first male

Gen 2:5-7

²² With the rib that the Lord God had take from the man he formed a woman and he brought her to the man.

²³ Then the man said,

“This time she is flesh from my flesh
    and bone of my bones.
She will be called ‘woman,’
    because from man has she been taken.”

Gen 2:22-23

For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and unite with his wife, and the two will be one flesh 

Gen 2:24

Now both were naked, the man and his wife, but they did not feel shame

Gen 2:25

the tree of knowledge of good and evil

2:17

And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[a] and hers;
he will crush^[b] your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”

Gen 3:15

We ourselves who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for…the redemption of our bodies

Rom 8:23

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” ⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” ⁷ They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” ⁸ He said to them, “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity,^[a] and marries another, commits adultery.”^[b]

Mt 19:3-9

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.

² And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” ³ He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴ They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.” ⁵ But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ⁶ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ⁷ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,^{[a] 8} and the two shall become one.’^[b] So they are no longer two but one.^{[c] 9} What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”

¹⁰ And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. ¹¹ And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; ¹² and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Mk 10:1-12

It is not good that the man should be alone, I want to make him a help similar to himself

2:18

The Lord formed every kind of animal of the field and all the birds of the air and brought them to the man to see what he would call them

Gen 2:19

when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

Gen 2:5

whatever the man called every living creature, that would be its name

Gen 2:19

in this way, the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but the man did not find a help similar to himself 

Gen 2:19:20

¹⁹ So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.

Gen 2:19-20

It is not good that the man should be alone; I want to make him a help similar to himself

Gen 2:18

¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; ¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Gen 2:16-17

²⁰ The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.

gen 2:20