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.

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Genesis 24:58

Genesis 31:14

Psalm 45:10

And they shall be one flesh

General references

Mark 10:7

Ephesians 5:31

Bible References

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And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

And they shall be one flesh

But you say, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?"

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

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

General references

'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."