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Mark 10:7 KJV
Mark · chapter 10 · verse 7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;Mark 10:7 · King James Version
Mark 10:7 in context
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Key words (Strong's)
- fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- mothermētēra mother, metaph. the source of something, the motherlandG3384 →
- cleaveproskollaōto glue upon, glue to, to join one's self to closely, cleave to, stick toG4347 →
- causehenekaon account of, for the sake of, for, for this cause, thereforeG1752 →
- causetoutouof this oneG5127 →
- leavekataleipōto leave behind, to depart from, leave, to be left, to bid to remain, to forsake, leave…G2641 →
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Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12