Matthew 19:4
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Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female--or better, perhaps, "He that made them made them from the beginning a male and a female."
Open source ↗19:4-5 The Pharisees were not considering all of God’s word. The Creator had made marriage as a permanent union (see Gen 2:18-25; see also 1 Cor 7:10-16).
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And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”
“What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:
Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?