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
General references
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Genesis 24:58
So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.
Genesis 31:14
Then Rachel and Leah asked him, "Do we have anything left of inheritance remaining in our father's house?
Psalm 45:10
Listen, daughter! Consider and pay attention. Forget your people and your father's house,
And they shall be one flesh
Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, "For what reason?' Because the LORD acts as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you were unfaithful to her, your partner, the wife of your covenant.
Matthew 19:3
Some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any 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 the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.
1 Corinthians 6:16
You know that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her, don't you? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
1 Corinthians 7:2
Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:28
In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies. A man who loves his wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 5:14
Therefore, I want younger widows to remarry, have children, manage their homes, and not give the enemy any chance to ridicule them.
1 Peter 3:1
In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives
General references
Mark 10:7
That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,
Ephesians 5:31
"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh."