Mark 10:7 (WEB)

Passage

For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

Nearby Context

Mark 10:5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.Genesis 1:27

Mark 10:7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

Mark 10:8 and the two will become one flesh,Genesis 2:24 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Mark 10:9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "cause", "leave", "father", "mother", "join", and "wife". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "cause" and "leave", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "But from the beginning of the creation..." into verse 8's "and the two will become one flesh...", so "cause" and "leave" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "cause" and "leave" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.