Mark 10:9

Simplified Cowboy Version

And what God has joined together, what right has anyone else to come and try to sort off one?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

King James Version (1611)
What therefore God hath ioyned together, let not man put asunder.

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

English Standard Version
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate."

New Century Version
God has joined the two together, so no one should separate them."

Amplified Bible
"Therefore, what God has united and joined together, man must not separate [by divorce]."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Legacy Standard Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Contemporary English Version
And no one should separate a couple that God has joined together."

Complete Jewish Bible
So then, no one should break apart what God has joined together."

Darby Translation
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Easy-to-Read Version
God has joined them together, so no one should separate them."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore, what God hath coupled together, let not man separate.

George Lamsa Translation
What therefore God has joined, let no man separate.

Good News Translation
No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together."

Lexham English Bible
Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate."

Literal Translation
Therefore, what God yoked together, let not man put apart.

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

Bible in Basic English
Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

Hebrew Names Version
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

International Standard Version
Therefore, what God has joined together, man must never separate."

Etheridge Translation
What Aloha therefore hath conjoined, man may not separate.

Murdock Translation
What therefore God hath conjoined, let not man separate.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therfore, what God hath coupled together, let not man seperate.

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

World English Bible
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Weymouth's New Testament
What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor that thing that God ioynede togidere, no man departe.

Update Bible Version
What therefore God has joined together, don't let man separate.

Webster's Bible Translation
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate.

New English Translation
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

New King James Version
Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

New Living Translation
let no one split apart what God has joined together."

New Life Bible
Let no man divide what God has put together."

New Revised Standard
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What then, God, hath yoked together, let, a man, not put asunder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

Revised Standard Version
What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Therfore what God hath cuppled let not ma separat.

Young's Literal Translation
what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let not man therfore put asunder that, which God hath coupled together.

Mace New Testament (1729)
let no man therefore separate what God has designed to be one.

Contextual Overview

¹Then Jesus left and rode off to the region along Jordan Creek. Once again, the crowds of people found him and he taught them about riding for God's outfit. ²Some of the bigwig preachers showed their ugly hides and tried to throw a heel trap at him and get him to say something wrong. They asked him, "Is it right for a cowboy to divorce his wife?" ³Jesus turned it back on 'em and said, "What did Moses have to say about it?" ⁴They puffed out their chests as they began to show off their scripture knowledge. "Moses said it was fine. All a cowboy has to do is give her a paper that says they are divorced." ⁵But Jesus was already shaking his head. "Yeah, he said that, but only because you are weak and don't understand nothin'. ⁶From the beginning, God made cowboys and cowgirls. ⁷It's because of this that a cowboy will leave his own parents and unite with a cowgirl and the ⁸two will become one. In God's eyes, they are one person. ⁹And what God has joined together, what right has anyone else to come and try to sort off one?" ¹⁰Later on in the house, the cowboys asked Jesus about what he'd said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 7:1-3, 1 Chronicles 7:10-13

Reciprocal: Matthew 19:6 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What therefore God hath joined together,....

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. The wife of Herod had rejected her former husband and married Herod. And though instances of this kind “might” have been attempted to be defended by the example of Pagans, yet our Saviour was desirous of showing them that it did not free them from the charge of adultery. The apostles were going forth to teach Pagan nations, and it was proper for Christ to teach them how to act in such cases, and to show them that they were cases of real adultery.