Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
And they shall be one flesh
General references
Bible References
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Genesis 24:58
They called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
She replied, “I will go.”
She replied, “I will go.”
Genesis 31:14
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?
Psalm 45:10 Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider:
forget your people and your father’s house,
forget your people and your father’s house,
And they shall be one flesh
Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
Matthew 19:3
Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?”
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
Romans 7:2
For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
Don’t you know that anyone joined to a prostitute is one body with her? For Scripture says, The two will become one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live
General references
Mark 10:7 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],
Ephesians 5:31 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh.
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two will become one flesh.