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Mark 10:8
8The man and the woman become like one body. They are not two separate people any longer. They have come together as one person.
Mark 10:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
- New International Version (NIV)and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
- New King James Version (NKJV)and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Context of Mark 10:8
6But at the start, when God made the world, he made people male and female. 7That is the reason that a man leaves his father and his mother. Then God joins him and his wife together. The man and the woman become like one body. They are not two separate people any longer. They have come together as one person. 9God has put them together to be husband and wife. So nobody should cause them to be separate.’ 10When Jesus went into the house, the disciples asked him about these things again.
Read all of Mark 10Mark 10:8 word by word
καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν ὥστε οὐκέτι εἰσὶν δύο ἀλλὰ μία σάρξ.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Mark 10:8
- 1 Corinthians 6:16Anyone who makes his own body join to a prostitute becomes one body with that prostitute. You should know that. It says in the Bible: ‘The man and the woman become as one body.’
- Ephesians 5:28So husbands should love their wives, just as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife shows that he loves himself.
Commentaries on Mark 10:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-12Verses 1-12 See this question about divorce explained in the notes at Matthew 19:1-12. Mark 10:12 And if a woman shall put away her husband - It would seem, from this, that a woman, among the Jews, had the power of separating herself from her husband, yet this right is not given her by the law of Moses. There is not, however, any positive evidence that females often claimed or exercised this right. Cases had occurred, indeed, in which it had been done…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-9God allowed divorce because people’s hearts were hard, meaning they would not obey God. But the passages that Jesus quotes from the law of Moses show God’s true plan for marriage (Genesis 1:27; 2:23–24; see also Malachi 2:16). These passages show that God values marriage. In marriage, a man and woman form a new union, and the two become one. People should not go against God’s will by separating what God has joined together.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Mark 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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