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
And they shall be one flesh
Matthew 19:3
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'
Romans 7:2
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh."
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their homes, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach.
1 Peter 3:1
You wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,
General references
Mark 10:7
'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."