But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Parallel translations
- KJV But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
- BSB However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
- NKJV But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
- NASB But from the beginning of creation, God created them male and female.
- NLT But ‘God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation.
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Quick answer
From the beginning God made them male and female. Jesus grounds marriage in the created order, not in later concessions.
Overview
Citing Genesis 1:27, Jesus appeals to God's original creation of humanity as male and female as the foundation for marriage. This places the institution of marriage in God's good design from the start. By going back to creation, Jesus establishes a norm that predates and outranks the Mosaic concession.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Gen 5:2He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them “Adam”.
- Gen 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- Gen 2:20–23The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.
- Mal 2:14–16Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
- 2 Pet 3:4and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
- Mark 13:19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
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