# Matthew 19

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/19

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2. Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3. Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?”
4. He answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
5. and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7. They said to him, “Why then did Moses command a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8. He said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But from the beginning it was not this way.
9. I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10. His disciples said to him, “If this is how things are between a husband and his wife, it is better not to marry.”
11. He said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it has been given.
12. For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever can accept this should accept it.”
13. Then little children were brought to him so that he would lay his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14. But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to people like these.”
15. After laying his hands on them, he went on from there.
16. Just then a man came up to him and said, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?”
17. He said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
18. “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus said, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,
19. honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
20. The young man said to him, “I have kept all these. What do I still lack?”
21. Jesus told him, “If you want to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22. But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
25. When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Then who can be saved?”
26. Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”
27. Then Peter answered him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?”
28. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
30. But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.

## Nearby chapters

[Matthew 18](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/18.md)
[Matthew 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/20.md)

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