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
And the Pharisees came to Him, tempting Him, and saying to Him; Is it lawful for a man to send away his wife for any cause?
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.
Romans 7:2
For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:2
but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:
1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore I wish the younger women to marry, to raise up children, to rule the house, to give no occasion to the adversary for the sake of reproach;
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, ye wives, be submissive to your own husbands; in order that, if any do not believe the word, they shall be gained through the deportment of their wives, without the word;
General references
Mark 10:7
On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother,
Ephesians 5:31
on account of this a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife: and they two shall be one flesh.