Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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
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Genesis 24:58
So they called Rebekah and said, “Will you go with this man?” And she answered, “I will go.”
Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
Psalm 45:10
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget your people and your father’s house;
Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear [to my instruction]:
Forget your people and your father’s house;
And they shall be one flesh
Malachi 2:14
But you say, “Why [does He reject it]?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your marriage companion and the wife of your covenant [made by your vows].
Matthew 19:3
And Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
Romans 7:2
For the married woman [as an example] is bound and remains bound by law to her husband while he lives; but if her husband dies, she is released and exempt from the law concerning her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
Do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of [the temptation to participate in] sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I want younger widows to get married, have children, manage their households, and not give opponents of the faith any occasion for slander.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate, not as inferior, but out of respect for the responsibilities entrusted to husbands and their accountability to God, and so partnering with them] so that even if some do not obey the word [of God], they may be won over [to Christ] without discussion by the godly lives of their wives,
General references
Mark 10:7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother [to establish a home with his wife],
Ephesians 5:31
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined [and be faithfully devoted] to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.