Matthew 19:5
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Bible text
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh’?
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Statistics
- 8 Verse-level uses Every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 8 Explicit citations As in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #3,132 Rank Rank 3,132 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 23,892 in the sequence Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering), New Testament
8 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
No person of the Bible is linked to this verse yet.
Topics of this verse
- Marrying a divorced woman
- Man and woman
- Homosexuality
- Marriage and family
- Man as head of household
- Dating
- Wife
- Marriage reconciliation
- Husbands role
- Non believers
The strongest topics first, by the votes of the OpenBible.info readers.
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse has the following labels; labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 8 occurrences
Occurrences
8 approved public occurrences (data: Official), newest first.
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 445 – Dec 31, 523
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 12 -- First Discourse on Fornication
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Philoxenus of Mabbug
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Oriental Orthodox
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Oriental Orthodox
- Language
- syc
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0495
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Pseudo-Chrysostom
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 340 – Dec 31, 425
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Jerome
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:4-6
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on the Gospel of Matthew
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 179 – Dec 31, 254
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:5
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on Matthew, Book
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Origen of Alexandria
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- 0180
- Cited as
- Matthew 19:3-9
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, To Autolycus, Book III, Chapter
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Theophilus of Antioch
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed – counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) / Named verses only; data: Official; as of Nov 8, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC
Neutral key: nrf1:MAT.019.005
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- Every covered verse (baseline) The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Named verses only Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- Official The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 122, published Nov 8, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
- Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering)
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8 - Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
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