Genesis 2:24

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Summary

Genesis 2:24

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

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

And they shall be one flesh

And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Know you not that he that is joined to a harlot, is one body? For the two, says the scripture, shall be one flesh.

But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

I will, therefore, that the younger widows marry, bear children, man age the house, and thus give no occasion to the adversaries to speak reproachfully.

Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,

General references

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife;

For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.